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The young 'Scotty': A statue of a young F. Scott Fitzgerald will be unveiled today at the old site of St. Paul Academy, where the author honed his skills amid a desperate struggle to fit in.

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From: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN)
Date: 20060926
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Byline: Doug Belden

Sep. 26--The week he would have turned 110, St. Paul's most famous writer is getting a birthday present in bronze. A statue of F. Scott Fitzgerald is being unveiled today at a former site of St. Paul Academy, the private school he attended for three years and where he published his first work of fiction. Unlike the well-known statue of a mature Fitzgerald in the corner of Rice Park, the new likeness shows the writer as a schoolboy. He is leaning back casually on the building's original steps and gazing up toward the stoplight at Summit and Dale the ...

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