The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide

Algonquin Round Table New York by Jane Kratochvil

News

Lucasfilm and Me

It seems like an alternate reality that I am in some way linked to Lucasfilm. Around 20 years ago, Lucasfilm reached out to me, to see if I would be a talking head in a mini-documentary about the Algonquin Round Table. Why? […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJanuary 7, 2025January 7, 2025

Books News

New Paperback Edition of the Algonquin Round Table New York

In what came as a surprise to me, a paperback edition of The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide (2015) has been published by Lyons Press. The hardcover vanished last year (which was the centennial of the Round Table launch, […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJune 18, 2020

News

Interview on Thirteen about 1920s Writers

For the Great American Read in New York, PBS WNET Thirteen interviewed me at the Algonquin Hotel to talk about the 1920s literary scene in the city. The show is part of the Metrofocus series. I spoke about the history of the […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJune 14, 2018June 14, 2018

Books News

Neysa McMein, Illustrator and Iconic Figure

Today is the birth date of Neysa McMein, January 25, 1888, in Quincy, Illinois. Born Marjorie Moran McMein, she was the highest-paid and most in-demand female artist of the Jazz Age, who painted scores of magazine covers and created iconic posters in […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJanuary 25, 2018

News Research

WWI Centennial Countdown Begins with Private C. LeRoy Baldridge Art

In thirty days is the centennial of American entry in World War I on April 6. To mark the occasion, beginning today I am going to post a daily countdown with a different sketch by Private C. LeRoy Baldridge. He was a […]

Kevin FitzpatrickMarch 6, 2017March 5, 2017

News Research

I Unearth 1933 Radio Show with George Gershwin, Kitty Carlisle, Richy Craig, Jr.

k72ndst · Fleischmann Yeast Hour 9 Nov 1933 Rudy Vallée George Gershwin About five years ago I bought a tape on eBay of an NBC radio show from 1933 because it had Heywood Broun and Deems Taylor as guests. Both were members […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJanuary 12, 2017November 17, 2022

Research

Goldwin Starrett and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918

All of my book research is starting to cross over, and I am reminded of this today because it is the ninty-eighth anniversary of the death of Goldwin Starrett, the young architect of the Algonquin Hotel, in 1918. It was only this […]

Kevin FitzpatrickMay 9, 2016May 18, 2016

Research

F.P.A. on New Year’s Day 1922

Dorothy Parker gave this signed photo to her friend and mentor F.P.A. and his family. Photo courtesy of Anthony Adams. Heywood Broun and Ruth Hale had one of their famous New Year’s Eve parties to close out 1921. They lived in a […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJanuary 1, 2016January 1, 2016

Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide

Books

Nomination for Apple Award by Guides Association of New York City

I was really surprised and honored today to hear from the Guides Association of New York City (GANYC) that my book The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide has been nominated for an Apple Award. I’ve been nominated in the […]

Kevin FitzpatrickDecember 8, 2015December 8, 2015

Books

Dec. 12 Signing at Princeton Club of New York

I’m happy to announce I will be signing and selling copies of all 5 of my books: A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York, The Lost Algonquin Round Table: Humor, Fiction, Journalism, Criticism and Poetry From America’s Most Famous Literary Circle, Under […]

Kevin FitzpatrickDecember 6, 2015December 6, 2015

Kevin C. Fitzpatrick

Tags

Kevin C. Fitzpatrick

The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide

Lucasfilm and Me

New Paperback Edition of the Algonquin Round Table New York

Interview on Thirteen about 1920s Writers

Neysa McMein, Illustrator and Iconic Figure

WWI Centennial Countdown Begins with Private C. LeRoy Baldridge Art

I Unearth 1933 Radio Show with George Gershwin, Kitty Carlisle, Richy Craig, Jr.

Goldwin Starrett and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918

F.P.A. on New Year’s Day 1922

Nomination for Apple Award by Guides Association of New York City

Dec. 12 Signing at Princeton Club of New York

Search Here ….

Tags

The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide