Books
- Author of A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York (ISBN 0-9766706-0-7) from Roaring Forties Press.
- Editor of The Lost Algonquin Round Table (ISBN 0-97814401515-2-1) from Donald Books. Nat Benchley is co-editor.
- A work in progress is The Algonquin Round Table's New York, also from Roaring Forties Press.
Fitzpatrick produces the award-winning dorothyparker.com, which he launched in 1998. He is the president of the Dorothy Parker Society, which he founded in 1999.
Fitzpatrick led the way for Dorothy Parker’s birthplace in Long Branch, New Jersey, to be named a National Literary Landmark by Friends of Libraries USA. He oversaw the creation of a bronze memorial plaque that was unveiled in August 2005 in Parker's hometown. In conjunction with the Algonquin Hotel, Fitzpatrick leads walking tours of the former Algonquin Round Table homes and haunts in Manhattan.
He and his wife reside in Manhattan and the Town of Shelter Island.
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