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And although he sometimes liked to give the impression he was the poor outsider looking in at St. He never returned after he and Zelda left in 1922, but he carried on correspondence with his friends here. Later in life, Fitzgerald seemed to have ambivalent feelings about the city of his birth. Paul in 1919 and re-wrote “This Side of Paradise” in a third-floor bedroom. Fitzgerald’s parents were living at 599 Summit when Scott came back to St. Pictures of houses on Summit Avenue, which Page calls “the spine of Fitzgerald’s neighborhood,” open the book. I was trying to photograph the neighborhood the way a young, aspiring writer might poetically see it when he was young.” “Fitzgerald is a natural way to make that accessible to a larger audience. I wanted to do something with that,” he said. “The Cathedral Hill neighborhood is a national treasure, not just the individual structures but how intact are the gardens, the mature trees. Krueger, a freelance professional photographer, agrees. “It’s unusual for a neighborhood like this, of architect-designed houses, to be virtually intact.” Paul is well known nationally and possibly internationally for its residential architecture,” says Page, a Fitzgerald scholar. “I don’t know how many people know that St. There are insets of interesting drawings from old newspapers and pictures of original owners. Each page has a picture of the house, including architectural details, along with biographies of the owner or owners, and information about how these people influenced Fitzgerald’s views about wealth and belonging, whether as childhood friends or as inspiration for characters in his stories. “F Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota” is filled with dozens of color photos of houses that were important in Fitzgerald’s boyhood. Paul native whose short stories and novels captured the Jazz Age.

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Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota,” the beautiful new coffee-table book that is the first publishing venture for Fitzgerald in St. But many more are preserved, and the stories they tell about Fitzgerald and the kids with whom he and his sister Annabel spent time make up “F. Some of the city’s great mansions built in the last half of the 19th century were razed. Scott, born in 1896, saw big, beautiful St. Scott Fitzgerald saw as he walked in the Cathedral Hill/Crocus Hill neighborhoods?