{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Pionerd","title":"F. Scott Fitzgerald’s St. Paul: The Summit Avenue Crucible & The American Century","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":722,"description":"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 the Midwestern origins of America’s premier Jazz Age voice, from his early heartbreak over Chicago socialite Ginevra King to his desperate 1919 retreat to 599 Summit Avenue, where he wrote This Side of Paradise in a third-floor front room and launched a legendary literary career.\nKEY TOPICS & HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS:\nShadows on Laurel Avenue: The grief-stricken household at 481 Laurel Avenue, the loss of his two older sisters, and how his doting mother, Mollie McQuillan, shaped his early belief in personal destiny.\nThe Dual Inheritance: Edward Fitzgerald’s gentlemanly failures, the McQuillan wholesale grocer fortune, and living in \"a house below the average on a street above the average.\"\nGinevra King & The Poor Boy's Curse: The 1915 holiday encounter in St. Paul, the crushing rejection by elite Chicago socialites, and the central theme that defined The Great Gatsby.\nThe Summit Avenue Crucible: Retreating to 599 Summit Avenue in 1919 with 122 rejection slips, repairing railroad car roofs, and Maxwell Perkins’s life-changing acceptance letter from Scribner's.\nThe Mirage of the Jazz Age: The luxury of 1920s fame, the commercial failure of The Great Gatsby, Zelda’s 1930 mental breakdown, and the crippling cost of private psychiatric care.\nArmed Services Editions & Posthumous Reclaiming: Fitzgerald’s lonely death in Hollywood in 1940, the 155,000 WWII paperback copies distributed to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TBzQA953XT-5pUk9GpM9Lck7NRVoPLOa3qejYqJMdT4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMmRi/MTE5YzRmZTQ3ZjFk/ZjQ0OWUzODdkNGVm/MmVhMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}