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From Placeography
Coleman's Pseudonymous Minnesota: The Real Models for Fictional Minnesota Places
The Society has the largest collection in the universe of Minnesota fiction and many of these books create thinly veiled places based on the author's experience with an authentic local place. Some of these disguises are fairly pedestrian, such as William McNally's "Capitol City" for St. Paul, but others are wonderfully creative, such as Sinclair Lewis's "Northernapolis" for Duluth. Patrick Coleman, curator of the Minnesota Historical Society's book collection has begun a list of fictional Minnesota places and their real life counterparts.
