F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota: The Writer and His Friends at Home

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If you think you know F. Scott Fitzgerald, this book will come as a delightfully intimate surprise. Fitzgerald scholar Dave Page has meticulously scoured the letters, scrapbooks, and diaries of the great American novelist, offering a fresh have a look at the young creator and his St. Paul friends and neighbors. Readers will learn about—and recognize—the sources for the characters and the places he wrote about—in addition to be aware why St. Paul so inspired him.

F. Scott Fitzgerald fans already know and love one of the vital enchanting and mischievous characters that populate his early novels and short stories. There used to be Bernice, who bobbed not only her hair but her cousin’s as well. And those pranksters who crashed the improper party disguised as an exotic camel! And then there used to be the poor Southern belle who almost froze to death in the St. Paul Winter Carnival’s ice palace. Many of Fitzgerald’s characters and tales were in line with real people and events from the young creator’s life, set against the socioeconomic times of the Jazz Age, where he perceived a great gulf between the haves and the have-nots in his place of origin.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota combines insights into the creator’s early career with the wealthy architectural history of St. Paul, taking readers into the homes and places he frequented. Page’s well-researched analysis is complemented by Jeff Krueger’s sensitive color photographs of homes still standing, and supplemented by fascinating historic photographs of lives well lived in old St. Paul.

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