Editing Isadora Duncan (section)

=== Later years ===
By the late 1920s, Duncan, in her late 40s, was depressed by the deaths of her three young children. She spent her final years financially struggling, moving between Paris and the Mediterranean, running up debts at hotels. Her autobiography ''My Life'' was published in 1927 shortly after her death. The Australian composer [[Percy Grainger]] called it a "life-enriching masterpiece."<ref>{{cite book| editor-last1= Gillies  | editor-first1= Malcolm | editor-last2= Pear | editor-first2= David | editor-last3= Carroll | editor-first3= Mark | title= Self Portrait of Percy Grainger | publisher= Oxford University Press | year= 2006 |page= 116}}</ref> 

In his book ''Isadora, An Intimate Portrait'', [[Sewell Stokes]], who met Duncan in the last years of her life, described her extravagant waywardness. In a reminiscent sketch, [[Zelda Fitzgerald]] wrote how she and her husband, author [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], sat in a Paris cafe watching a somewhat drunken Duncan. He would speak of how memorable it was, but all that Zelda recalled was that while all eyes were watching Duncan, she was able to steal the salt and pepper shakers from the table.<ref>{{cite book| last= Milford | first= Nancy | title= Zelda: A Biography |place= New York | publisher= HarperCollins| year= 1983 |page= 118| isbn=}}</ref>