Record #:

4082

Author(s):

Mitchell, Ted

Abstract:

Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, vacationed often with her parents in Western Carolina. Little could she know that she would die in a fire in 1948 in Asheville's Highland Hospital, where she was confined as a psychiatric patient. The cause of Buncombe County's most disastrous hospital fire, in which nine died, has never been determined.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 66 Issue 10, Mar 1999, p70-73, por

Subject(s):

Hospitals--Asheville; Fires--Asheville; Fitzgerald, Zelda, 1900-1948