What is the title of Zelda Fitzgerald's only novel?

Zelda Fitzgerald’s only published novel is titled Save Me the Waltz. Published in 1932, it is a semi-autobiographical story about Alabama Beggs, a Southern woman whose turbulent marriage and ambition to become a ballerina echo aspects of Zelda’s own life.

Zelda wrote much of the novel while receiving treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Phipps Clinic in Baltimore. The book draws on her experiences in the American South, her marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald, life in Europe, and her intense pursuit of ballet. Its fictional heroine is not Zelda exactly, but the parallels made the novel part of the larger literary record of the Fitzgerald marriage.

A frequent misconception is that Scott Fitzgerald rewrote the book. Archival evidence indicates that his role was mainly advisory, although he objected to some overlaps with his own work and helped secure publication through his editor, Maxwell Perkins. Save Me the Waltz sold poorly at first, but it has since attracted renewed scholarly attention as an important work by a woman writer of the Jazz Age.