Author: John J. Koblas
Quality Paperback, 7.8 x 4.6 inches, 90 pages.

Book Notes

A handy guide to more than 100 places associated with the boyhood of famed author F. Scott Fitzgerald.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul is still around us. The elegant neighborhoods where he grew up as "a poor boy in a rich town" are still the city's finest, beautiful to discover and enjoy. Travelers can explore the neighborhoods that shaped him and provided the scenery and plots for many of his most successful short stories.

This book blends informative biographical detail with lustrous vignettes from the fiction of one of the greatest writers in twentieth-century America. Its first section tells the story of Fitzgerald's early life by describing his connections to 35 significant places in St. Paul: his birthplace, the many homes and apartments where he lived (his parents moved almost every year), the apartment where he wrote This Side of Paradise, the clubs where he partied and flirted. The second part keys these 35 buildings, plus 71 others that are briefly described, to handy maps, useful for self-guided walking tours.