With Good Reason

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Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald (left) had a celebrity marriage during the Jazz Age of the 1920s.  However, from 1930 until her death in 1948, Zelda was in and out of mental hospitals.  Karen Tatum (Norfolk State University) is exploring the possibility of a link between the medication Zelda took for eczema and her debilitating mental illness.

Also:  Hermine Pinson (College of William and Mary) is a poet and singer who found herself fighting for her life after she was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  Her new book “Promises to Keep: A Memoir of Healing” explores writing as therapy after recovering from serious illness.