I just finished reading Bits of Paradise, a collection of short stories by F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. I’ve always admired F. Scott, but because Zelda doesn’t have much writing that has been published, she kind of sat on the back burner for me. It was both interesting and sad to read the footnotes after the byline of Zelda’s short stories where it noted that for her work to get published, the byline had to read F. Scott’s name or for both of their names to be credited. It wasn’t until the 1930s that some of her work was credited to her completely. This makes me think about how successful of a writer she would be today when women can take full credit for their work.
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