F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the great American novel. We know him as the author of "The Great Gatzby," and Minnesotans take pride in his Minnesota roots. But the inspiration for many of his stories comes from a largely uncredited source. His wife Zelda. In a new book titled "Sometimes Madness is Wisdom," author Kendall Taylor examines Zelda's talents and her marriage to one of America's great literary giants of the 1920's. Taylor says the marriage between Zelda and Scott was complicated.

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