Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

At 23, F. Scott Fitzgerald — a sudden celebrity with the success of his first book, “This Side of Paradise” — told the press that his ambitions were to write the greatest novel of all time and to stay in love with his wife forever.

Fitzgerald died young, at 44. In the years left him, however, he produced an abiding American classic, “The Great Gatsby,” and never stopped loving his wife, Zelda. And as St. Teresa of Ávila wrote, “There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.”