Knickerbocker Hotel - NY, NY - Literary Sites on Waymarking.com

Novelist and short story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in the Knickerbocker Hotel in 1919. Here he courting his future wife the novelist Zelda Sayre in the downstairs dining room. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his short story Mr Icky in one of the bedrooms. "This has the distinction of being the only magazine piece ever written in a New York hotel. The business was done in a bedroom in the Knickerbocker, and shortly afterward that memorable hostelry closed its doors forever. When a fitting period of mourning had elapsed it was published in the "Smart Set"." (visit link)

In his debut novel, This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald sets the entire Book 2 Chapter 2 - Experiments in Convalescence - in the Knickerbocker Hotel. (visit link)

Short Description: Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald lived and wrote in the Knickerbocker Hotel and courted his future wife novelist Zelda Sayre in the hotel dining room. Book Title: Mr. Icky; This Side of Paradise First Year Published: Mr. Icky (1922); This Side of Paradise (1920) Author's Name: F. Scott Fitzgerald Name of Waymarked Item: Knickerbocker Hotel Location of Item: 142 West 42nd Street , NY, NY More Information: Book 2; Chapter 2 of This Side of Paradise - Experiments in Convalescence is set in the Knickerbocker Hotel. Mr. Icky was written while he was living in the hotel. Admission Price?: 0.00 (listed in local currency) Link to more information about the book or waymarked item.: [Web Link]

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