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Stepping Out with Scott and Zelda is a fascinating little guide that reveals the places, extant and vanished, that were part of the Fitzeralds' Montgomery experience. Great fun! -- John Anthony Gilvey, author of Before the Parade Passes By: Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical In this must-have guide, visitors to Montgomery will enjoy discovering its literary treasures, places that bring Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's fascinating lives to light. -- Wanda Howard Battle, founder of Legendary Tours of Montgomery, Alabama, former tour director of the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church Maire Martello's magic is in tying the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald literature to actual Montgomery locations. In her hands, our capital city becomes a literary destination that fires the imagination. -- Patricia Clark, executive director of the Montgomery County Historical Society

Stepping Out with Scott and Zelda is a fascinating little guide that reveals the places, extant and vanished, that were part of the Fitzeralds' Montgomery experience. Great fun! -- John Anthony Gilvey, author of Before the Parade Passes By: Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical-- Source In this must-have guide, visitors to Montgomery will enjoy discovering its literary treasures, places that bring Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's fascinating lives to light. -- Wanda Howard Battle, founder of Legendary Tours of Montgomery, Alabama, former tour director of the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church-- Source Maire Martello's magic is in tying the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald literature to actual Montgomery locations. In her hands, our capital city becomes a literary destination that fires the imagination. -- Patricia Clark, executive director of the Montgomery County Historical Society-- Source

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Maire Martello is the docent and a board member for the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. Beyond that role, she is also a playwright, fiction writer, and contributor to the medieval history blog The Murrey and Blue. Her recent short stories about Richard the Third, including ""Becoming White Surrey,"" were published on behalf of the Scoliosis Association UK. Her play The Lodger was produced off-Broadway, where it garnered good reviews. As a member of The Players, the oldest theatrical club in America, she produced a long-running series of evenings devoted to literature and culture. Guest speakers included Oliver Sacks, Quentin Crisp, Fran Lebowitz, Camille Paglia, Susan Sontag, Dominick Dunne, Joyce Maynard, and Eric Bentley. A long-time admirer of the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald, she produced an evening at The Players celebrating his centennial. Speakers included Budd Schulberg, Ring Lardner Jr., Matt Bruccoli, and Ruth Prigozy. A graduate of Finch College in New York City, she relocated from that city to Montgomery in the fall of 2018.

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