14. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Wife Had Schizophrenia
Zelda Fitzgerald lived with her husband as a celebrity during the tumult of the Roaring Twenties, and she was dubbed “the first American flapper.” However, she had many delusional and psychotic breakdowns, especially regarding what she believed was unfaithfulness on the part of her husband.
After 1930, Zelda spent much of her life in asylums and sanatoria, at first in Europe and later in the United States. Her symptoms improved with treatment, and today, she is seen as a feminist icon for her role in the women’s liberation movement of the 1920s.
