Kevin C. Fitzpatrick is a New York author, public historian, and tour guide. Kevin is the author and editor of nine books that are all tied to New York history. His most recent is Dorothy Parker’s New York (Expanded Edition) from SUNY Press, due August 1, 2025. He is a fourth-generation New Yorker who launched his tour guide company Big Apple Fanatics Tours in 1999. Kevin leads city history walking tours and boat tours of Long Island.

Kevin launched the Dorothy Parker Society in 1998 and became the driving force in scores of projects around Parker’s legacy. The biggest was his campaign to bring Parker’s cremains from Baltimore to New York; he buried Parker’s urn next to her parents in 2020.

He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1983 and served six years in the reserves. Kevin frequently speaks on military history. He was a project leader of the World War One Centennial Committee for New York City and has taken part in restoring and dedicating monuments and memorials for many years.

His books are always about New York: 111 Places in the Bronx That You Must Not Miss (Emons), is the first guidebook to the borough in fifty years. World War One New York: A Guide to the City’s Enduring Ties to the Great War (Globe Pequot Press) was timed to the centennial of the war and is the definitive study of Great War memorials in the region. The Governors Island Explorer’s Guide (Globe Pequot) is the first and only guidebook to the beloved island in New York Harbor. It has more than one hundred locations and a full island history from the pre-colonial era to today.

Kevin is an expert on the Jazz Age and Speakeasy Era. Among his books are The Algonquin Round Table’s New York: A Historical Guide (Lyons Press), the only book that has a full history of the famous literary group from the 1920s, with biographies of all thirty members. Dorothy Parker Complete Broadway, 1918-1923 (Donald Books) collects 150,000 words of Dorothy Parker’s drama reviews. Kevin edited the work, wrote the introduction, extensive notes section, and the index. Under the Table: A Dorothy Parker Cocktail Guide (Lyons Press) collects seventy five drink recipes with anecdotes, stories, and references to the Prohibition Era. A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York (Roaring Forties Press) was a hit with fans and provided a detailed overview of the writer and wit’s eventful life.  The Lost Algonquin Round Table: Humor, Fiction, Journalism, Criticism and Poetry From America’s Most Famous Literary Circle (Donald Books) was co-edited with Nat Benchley, a grandson of Robert Benchley. This book is the first collection of writing by more than a dozen members of the “Vicious Circle” that met at the Algonquin Hotel.

Kevin has twice won the Apple Award for Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Book Writing by the Guides Association of New York City. He also shared in a third award with his friend Joanna Leban for their podcast.

Kevin is a graduate of Northeast Missouri State University. He worked in newspapers, television, magazines, advertising, marketing, and a myriad of other schemes for low pay. He is the Shepherd (president) of The Lambs and is affiliated with many other fine organizations.

Kevin has provided talks and lectures at the New York Public Library, Naval Station Norfolk (U.S. Navy Mid-Atlantic Region), New-York Historical Society, New York Transit Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, Union League Club, Princeton Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, and many more clubs, historical societies, and organizations. He has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, the Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum, C-SPAN American History TV, BBC Radio, NPR, and more.

Kevin and his family live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and Shelter Island, Long Island.