The Legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul in 1896, and lived at multiple addresses near Summit Avenue during his time in Minnesota. After the birth of his daughter Scottie in 1922, he and wife Zelda moved to Great Neck, New York. This Long Island location would become the setting for his 1925 masterpiece, The Great Gatsby--regarded by critics as the Great American Novel. In it, Midwesterner Jay Gatsby tries to reinvent himself and leave his past behind. Although Fitzgerald moved away from Minnesota early in his career, he returned again and again to his life experiences in St. Paul through his fiction, establishing the city as a literary mecca. Two local Fitzgerald scholars, Joel Pace and Dave Page, talk to KFAI producer Susan Gray about the St. Paul's native son.