F. Scott Fitzgerald’s St. Paul: The Summit Avenue Crucible & The American Century
SHOW DESCRIPTION: On September 24, 1896, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in a second-floor apartment at 481 Laurel Avenue in St. Paul’s Cathedral Hill neighborhood, entering a home shadowed by the tragic loss of two young sisters to scarlet fever just months prior. Growing up on the physical edge of tremendous wealth, Fitzgerald lived in rented row houses just blocks from the grand stone fortresses of Summit Avenue, instilling in him a permanent, restless obsession with status, class, and social acceptance. On this episode of Pionerd: The Minnesota Edition, host Robert Thomas uncovers…
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