Member Review

What an amazing book! We all have enjoyed learning about Zelda and Edouard, I am certain. Well, here the author explores the affair, the relationship and how it fascinated people are with their story. I truly enjoyed reading this book and it will serve as a great coffee table book once I purchase the hardcover. Great job!



Here is the synopsis of the book: The Gatsby Affair explores Zelda Fitzgerald’s affair with the French aviator, Edouard Jozan, who served as the prototype for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous creation, Jay Gatsby. This book draws on the Jozan family papers, photographs, and archival materials and takes a bold new look at the creation of The Great Gatsby.

The romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre has been celebrated as one of the greatest of the 20th century. From the beginning, their relationship was a tumultuous one, in which the couple’s excesses were as widely known as their passion for each other. Despite their love, both Scott and Zelda engaged in flirtations that threatened to tear the couple apart. But none had a more profound impact on the two—and on Scott’s writing—as the liaison between Zelda and a French aviator, Edouard Jozan. Though other biographies have written of Jozan as one of Scott’s romantic rivals, accounts of the pilot’s effect on the couple have been superficial at best. In The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal That Shaped an American Classic, Kendall Taylor examines the dalliance between the southern belle and the French pilot from a fresh perspective. Drawing on conversations and correspondence with Jozan’s daughter, as well as materials from the Jozan family archives, Taylor sheds new light on this romantic triangle. More than just a casual fling,