The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald - by F Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback)

About the Book

Fitzgerald's sensitivity about wealth and position--later made evident in such classics as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night--was bred of his St. Paul family and associations.

Book Synopsis

Fitzgerald's sensitivity about wealth and position-later made evident in such classics as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night-was bred of his St. Paul family and associations.

Review Quotes

"Fitzgerald is a presence in St. Paul, a ghost who patrols his old neighborhood and keeps talking to us. He sits on Mrs. Porterfield's porch on Summit Avenue, smoking and talking about writing, and it is always that gorgeous summer just before he finished the book, hit it big, went to New York, married the girl. This lovely book sets out our claim on him. We have no Fitzgerald museum in St. Paul, no boyhood home restored--the family lived in apartments--but this book is the only monument he needs, his own stories, with historical notes, and Patricia Hampl's graceful shining essay for absolution, and Zelda's benediction." -- Garrison Keillor

About the Author

Patricia Hampl is Regents' Professor of English at the University of Minnesota and author of several books, including A Romantic Education and I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. She has won NEA, Bush, Guggenheim, Bellagio, McKnight, Fulbright, and MacArthur fellowships. Dave Page is co-author of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota: Toward the Summit and was the co-chair of the 2002 International Fitzgerald Conference. He teaches writing at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota.