“I married the heroine of my stories,” Fitzgerald told a reporter at the time. From then on Zelda became his ultimate muse. He wrote short stories about the new breed of “flapper” girls ...

Scheduled to run from 1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the live reading is one of several events planned by the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library commemorating “Gatsby’s” centennial in ...