The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

F Scott Fitzgerald's St Paul is a city of winter dreams and ice palaces, lakeside parties and neighbourhood hijinks. These are stories of ambition and young love, insecurity and awkwardness, where a poor boy with energy and intelligence can break into the upper classes and become a glittering success. This selection brings together the best of Fitzgerald's St Paul stories -- some virtually unknown, others classics of short fiction. Patricia Hampl's incisive introduction traces the trajectory of Fitzgerald's blazing celebrity and its connections to his life in the city that gave him his best material. Headnotes by Dave Page provide specific ties between the stories and Fitzgerald's life in St Paul.

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.