F. Scott Fitzgerald bibliography

F. Scott Fitzgerald
bibliography
Novels5
Stories171
Collections10
Poems25
Plays1
References and footnotes

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby (his most famous), and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.

Books[edit]

Novels[edit]

Title Publication Notes E-text
This Side of Paradise Scribners, 1920 Wikisource
The Beautiful and Damned Scribners, 1922 Wikisource
The Great Gatsby Scribners, 1925 Wikisource;
Read
Tender Is the Night Scribners, 1934 Original version (1934)
Version edited by Malcolm Cowley (1951)
Read
The Last Tycoon (First version)
The Love of the Last Tycoon (Second version)
Scribners, 1941
Cambridge University, 1993
Unfinished; published posthumously
Version edited by Edmund Wilson (1941)
Version edited by Matthew Bruccoli (1993)
Read

Short story collections[edit]

Title Publication Contents E-text
During Fitzgerald lifetime
Flappers and Philosophers Scribners, 1920 8 short stories:
"The Offshore Pirate", "The Ice Palace", "Head and Shoulders", "The Cut-Glass Bowl", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "Benediction", "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong", "The Four Fists"
Read; Read
Tales of the Jazz Age Scribners, 1922 11 short stories:
"The Jelly-Bean", "The Camel's Back", "May Day", "Porcelain and Pink", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Tarquin of Cheapside", "Oh Russet Witch!", "The Lees of Happiness", "Mr. Icky", "Jemina"
Read; Read
All the Sad Young Men Scribners, 1926 9 short stories:
"The Rich Boy", "Winter Dreams", "The Baby Party", "Absolution", "Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les", "The Adjuster", "Hot and Cold Blood", "The Sensible Thing", "Gretchen's Forty Winks"
Read
Taps at Reveille Scribners, 1935 18 short stories;
Stories about Basil Duke Lee: "The Scandal Detectives", "The Freshest Boy", "He Thinks He's Wonderful", "The Captured Shadow" and "The Perfect Life"
Stories about Josephine Perry:
"First Blood", "A Nice Quiet Place" and "A Woman with a Past"
Others:
"Crazy Sunday", "Two Wrongs", "The Night of Chancellorsville", "The Last of the Belles", "Majesty", "Family in the Wind", "A Short Trip Home", "One Interne", "The Fiend", "Babylon Revisited"
Posthumous
The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribners, 1951 28 short stories, 10 not previously collected and 4 sets of editorial notes Read
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories Scribners, 1960 10 short stories;
"The Ice Palace", "May Day", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "Winter Dreams", "Absolution", "The Rich Boy", "The Freshest Boy", "Babylon Revisited", "Crazy Sunday", "The Long Way Out"
The Pat Hobby Stories Scribners, 1962 All 17 short stories about the fictional screenwriter Pat Hobby Read
The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald Rutgers University Press, 1965 16 early stories Read
The Basil and Josephine Stories Scribners, 1973 14 short stories;
9 about Basil and 5 about Josephine:
Stories about Basil Duke Lee: "That Kind of Party", "The Scandal Detectives", "A Night at the Fair", "The Freshest Boy", "He Thinks He's Wonderful", "The Captured Shadow", "The Perfect Life", "Forging Ahead", "Basil and Cleopatra"
Stories about Josephine Perry: "First Blood", "A Nice Quiet Place", "A Woman with a Past", "A Snobbish Story", "Emotional Bankruptcy"
Read
Bits of Paradise Scribners, 1974 21 stories by Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda
by F. Scott: "The Popular Girl", "Love in the Night", "A Penny Spent", "The Dance", "Jacobs Ladder", "The Swimmers", "The Hotel Child", "A New Leaf", "What a Handsome Pair!", "Last Kiss", "Dearly Beloved"
by Zelda: "The Original Follies Girl", "Southern Girl", "The Girl the Prince Liked", "The Girl with Talent", "A Millionaire's Girl", "Poor Working Girl", "Miss Ella", "The Continental Angle", "A Couple of Nuts"
Scott and Zelda: "Our Own Movie Queen"
Read
The Price Was High: Fifty Uncollected Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribners, 1989 all available in earlier collections
I'd Die For You: And Other Lost Stories Simon & Schuster, April 2017 18 stories, scenarios and fragments

Other books[edit]

Dust jacket of The Vegetable (New York: Scribners, 1923)
Title Publication Contents E-text
The Vegetable Scribners, 1923 play
Posthumous
The Crack-Up New Directions, 1945 10 essays, selections from the notebooks and letters
Afternoon of an Author Scribners, 1958 13 stories and 7 essays, with individual editorial notes Internet Archive
Poems 1911–1940 S.C.: Bruccoli Clark, 1981 25 poems
Novels and Stories 1920–1922 Library of America, 2000 This Side of Paradise;
Flappers and Philosophers;
The Beautiful and Damned;
Tales of the Jazz Age
The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–1926 Library of America, 2022 The Great Gatsby;
All the Sad Young Men;
16 Stories and 9 essays
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories University of South Carolina Press, 2001 all available in earlier collections

Letters[edit]

Title Publication Contents
Posthumous
The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribners, 1964 Letters from Fitzgerald to:
his wife, his daughter, his cousin Cecilia, Hemingway,
Perkins, Bishop, Turnbull, Gauss, Ober, Wilson,
and Gerald & Shelia Murphy
Dear Scott/Dear Max Scribners, 1971 Correspondence between Fitzgerald and Maxwell Perkins.
As Ever, Scott Fitz— J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1972 Correspondence between Fitzgerald and Harold Ober.
Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald Random House, 1980
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters Scribners, 1994

Short stories[edit]

1909–1919[edit]

Title Publication Collected in E-text
"The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage" St. Paul Academy Now and Then (Oct 1909) The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1965)
"Reade, Substitute Right Half" St. Paul Academy Now and Then (Feb 1910)
"A Debt of Honor" St. Paul Academy Now and Then (March 1910)
"The Room with the Green Blinds" St. Paul Academy Now and Then (June 1911)
"A Luckless Santa Claus" Newman News (Dec 24, 1912)
"Pain and the Scientist" Newman News (1913)
"The Trail of the Duke" Newman News (June 1913)
"Shadow Laurels" Nassau Literary Magazine (April 1915)
"The Ordeal" Nassau Literary Magazine (June 1915)
"The Débutante" Nassau Literary Magazine (Jan 1917)
"The Spire and the Gargoyle" Nassau Literary Magazine (Feb 1917)
"Tarquin of Cheapside" Nassau Literary Magazine (April 1917)
The Smart Set (Feb 1921)
Read
"Babes in the Woods" Nassau Literary Magazine (May 1917)
"Sentiment—And the Use of Rouge" Nassau Literary Magazine (June 1917)
"The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw" Nassau Literary Magazine (Oct 1917)

1920–1924[edit]

May 1920 cover of Saturday Evening Post containing "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"; Fitzgerald's name appears on the cover.
July 1920 cover of The Smart Set containing "May Day".
June 1922 cover of The Smart Set containing "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz".
Title Publication Collected in E-text
"Porcelain and Pink" The Smart Set (Jan 1920) Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) Read
"Head and Shoulders" The Saturday Evening Post (21 Feb 1920) Flappers and Philosophers (1920) Read
"Benediction" The Smart Set (Feb 1920) Read
"Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" The Smart Set (Feb 1920) Read
"Myra Meets His Family" The Saturday Evening Post (March 20, 1920) The Price Was High (1979)
"Mister Icky" The Smart Set (March 1920) Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) Read
"The Camel’s Back" The Saturday Evening Post (April 24, 1920) Read
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" The Saturday Evening Post (May 1, 1920) Flappers and Philosophers (1920) Read
"The Ice Palace" The Saturday Evening Post (May 22, 1920) Read
"The Offshore Pirate" The Saturday Evening Post (May 29, 1920) Read
"The Cut-Glass Bowl" Scribner’s Magazine (May 1920) Read
"The Four Fists" Scribner’s Magazine (June 1920) Read
"The Smilers" The Smart Set (June 1920) The Price Was High (1979)
"May Day" The Smart Set (July 1920) Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) Read
"The Jelly-Bean" Metropolitan Magazine (Oct 1920) Read
"The Lees of Happiness" Chicago Sunday Tribune (Dec 12, 1920) Read
"Jemina" Vanity Fair (Jan 1921) Read
"O Russet Witch!" Metropolitan Magazine (Feb 1921) Read
"The Popular Girl" The Saturday Evening Post (Feb 11 & 18, 1922) Bits of Paradise (1974)
"Two for a Cent" Metropolitan Magazine (April 1922) The Price Was High (1979)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Collier’s (May 27, 1922) Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) Read
"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" The Smart Set (June 1922) Read
"Winter Dreams" Metropolitan Magazine (Dec 1922) All the Sad Young Men (1926) Read
"Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar" Hearst's International Cosmopolitan (May 1923) The Price Was High (1979) Read
"Hot & Cold Blood" Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan (Aug 1923) All the Sad Young Men (1926)
"Gretchen’s Forty Winks" The Saturday Evening Post (March 15, 1924)
"Diamond Dick and
the First Law of Woman"
Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan (April 1924) The Price Was High (1979)
"The Third Casket" The Saturday Evening Post (May 31, 1924)
"Absolution" The American Mercury (June 1924) All the Sad Young Men (1926)
"The Sensible Thing" Liberty (July 5, 1924)
"The Unspeakable Egg" The Saturday Evening Post (July 12, 1924) The Price Was High (1979)
"John Jackson's Arcady" The Saturday Evening Post (July 26, 1924)

1925–1929[edit]

Title Publication Collected in E-text
"The Baby Party" Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan (Feb 1925) All the Sad Young Men (1926)
"The Pusher-in-the-Face" Woman’s Home Companion (Feb 1925) The Price Was High (1979)
"Love in the Night" The Saturday Evening Post (March 14, 1925) Bits of Paradise (1974) Read
"One of My Oldest Friends" Woman’s Home Companion (Sep 1925) The Price Was High (1979)
"The Adjuster" The Redbook Magazine (Sep 1925) All the Sad Young Men (1926)
"A Penny Spent" The Saturday Evening Post (Oct 10, 1925) Bits of Paradise (1974)
"Not in the Guidebook" Woman’s Home Companion (Nov 1925) The Price Was High (1979)
"The Rich Boy" The Redbook Magazine (Jan/Feb 1926) All the Sad Young Men (1926)
"Presumption" The Saturday Evening Post (Jan 9, 1926) The Price Was High (1979)
"The Adolescent Marriage" The Saturday Evening Post (March 6, 1926)
"The Dance" The Redbook Magazine (June 1926) Bits of Paradise (1974)
"Rags Martin-Jones and
the Pr-nce of W-les"
McCall's (July 1926) All the Sad Young Men (1926)
"Your Way and Mine" Woman’s Home Companion (May 1927) The Price Was High (1979)
"Jacob’s Ladder" The Saturday Evening Post (Aug 20, 1927) Bits of Paradise (1974) Read
"The Love Boat" The Saturday Evening Post (Oct 8, 1927) The Price Was High (1979)
"A Short Trip Home" The Saturday Evening Post (Dec 17, 1927) Taps at Reveille (1935) Read
"The Bowl" The Saturday Evening Post (Jan 21, 1928) The Price Was High (1979) Reas
"Magnetism" The Saturday Evening Post (March 3, 1928) The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1951) Read
"The Scandal Detectives" The Saturday Evening Post (April 28, 1928) Taps at Reveille (1935) &
The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973)
"A Night at the Fair" The Saturday Evening Post (July 21, 1928) The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973) Read
"The Freshest Boy" The Saturday Evening Post (July 28, 1928) Taps at Reveille (1935) &
The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973)
"He Thinks He's Wonderful" The Saturday Evening Post (Sep 29, 1928)
"The Captured Shadow" The Saturday Evening Post (Dec 29, 1928)
"Outside the Cabinet-Maker’s" The Century Magazine (Dec 1928) Afternoon of an Author (1958) Read
"The Perfect Life" The Saturday Evening Post (Jan 5, 1929) Taps at Reveille (1935) &
The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973)
"The Last of the Belles" The Saturday Evening Post (March 2, 1929) Taps at Reveille (1935)
"Forging Ahead" The Saturday Evening Post (March 30, 1929) The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973) Read
"Basil and Cleopatra" The Saturday Evening Post (April 27, 1929 Read
"The Rough Crossing" The Saturday Evening Post (June 8, 1929) The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1951) Read
"Majesty" The Saturday Evening Post (July 13, 1929) Taps at Reveille (1935)
"At Your Age" The Saturday Evening Post (Aug 17, 1929) The Price Was High (1979) Read
"The Swimmers" The Saturday Evening Post (Oct 19, 1929) Bits of Paradise (1974) Read

1930–1934[edit]

Title Publication Collected in E-text
"Two Wrongs" The Saturday Evening Post (Jan 18, 1930) Taps at Reveille (1935)
The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973)
"First Blood" The Saturday Evening Post (April 5, 1930)
"A Nice Quiet Place" The Saturday Evening Post (May 31, 1930)
"The Bridal Party" The Saturday Evening Post (Aug 9, 1930) The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald Read
"A Woman with a Past" The Saturday Evening Post (Sep 6, 1930) Taps at Reveille (1935)
The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973)
"One Trip Abroad" The Saturday Evening Post (Oct 11, 1930) Afternoon of an Author (1958) Read
"A Snobbish Story" The Saturday Evening Post (Nov 29, 1930) The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973)
"The Hotel Child" The Saturday Evening Post (Jan 31, 1931) Bits of Paradise (1974) Read
"Babylon Revisited" The Saturday Evening Post, (Feb 21, 1931) Taps at Reveille (1935) Read
"Indecision" The Saturday Evening Post (May 16, 1931) The Price Was High (1979)
"A New Leaf" The Saturday Evening Post (July 4, 1931) Bits of Paradise (1974) Read
"Emotional Bankruptcy" The Saturday Evening Post (Aug 15, 1931) The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973) Read
"Between Three and Four" The Saturday Evening Post (Sep 5, 1931) The Price Was High (1979) Read
"A Change of Class" The Saturday Evening Post (Sep 26, 1931)
"A Freeze-Out" The Saturday Evening Post (Dec 19, 1931) Read
"Diagnosis" The Saturday Evening Post (Feb 20, 1932)
"Six of One" Redbook (Feb 1932) Read
"Flight and Pursuit" The Saturday Evening Post (May 14, 1932) Read
"Family in the Wind" The Saturday Evening Post (June 4, 1932) Taps at Reveille (1935)
"The Rubber Check" The Saturday Evening Post (Aug 6, 1932) The Price Was High (1979)
"What a Handsome Pair!" The Saturday Evening Post (Aug 27, 1932) Bits of Paradise (1974) Read
"Crazy Sunday" The American Mercury (Oct 1932) Taps at Reveille (1935)
"One Interne" The Saturday Evening Post (Nov 5, 1932) Read
"On Schedule" The Saturday Evening Post (March 18, 1933) The Price Was High (1979) Read
"More Than Just a House" The Saturday Evening Post (June 24, 1933) Read
"I Got Shoes" The Saturday Evening Post (Sep 1933)
"The Family Bus" The Saturday Evening Post (Nov 1933)
"No Flowers" The Saturday Evening Post (July 1934)
"New Types" The Saturday Evening Post (Sep 1934)
"In the Darkest Hour" Redbook (Oct 1934)
"Her Last Case" The Saturday Evening Post (Nov 1934)

1935–1940[edit]

Title Publication Collected in E-text
"The Fiend" Esquire (Jan 1935) Taps at Reveille (1935) Read
"The Night of Chancellorsville" Esquire (Feb 1935) Read
"Shaggy's Morning" Esquire (May 1935) Not part of a collection Read
"The Count of Darkness" Redbook (June 1935) part of planned Philippe stories
"The Intimate Strangers" McCall's (June 1935) The Price Was High (1979)
"Zone of Accident" The Saturday Evening Post (July 1935)
"Fate in Her Hands"
aka "What You Don't Know"
American Magazine (April 1936)
"Image on the Heart" McCall's (April 1936)
"Too Cute for Words" The Saturday Evening Post (April 1936) part of planned Gwen stories
"Three Acts of Music" Esquire (May 1936)
"Inside the House" The Saturday Evening Post (June 1936) part of planned Gwen stories
"An Author's Mother" Esquire (Sep 1936)
"'Trouble'" The Saturday Evening Post (March 1937) part of planned Trouble stories
"The Guest in Room Nineteen" Esquire (Oct 1937)
"In the Holidays" Esquire (Dec 1937)
"The End of Hate" Collier’s (June 22, 1940)
"The Kingdom in the Dark" Redbook (Aug 1935) Not part of a collection part of planned Philippe stories
"The Ants at Princeton" Esquire (June 1, 1936) Read
"Author's House" Esquire (July 1936) Afternoon of an Author (1958)
"Afternoon of an Author" Esquire (Aug 1936) Read
"I Didn't Get Over" Esquire (Oct 1936) Read
"Design in Plaster" Esquire (Nov 1939) Read
"An Alcoholic Case" Esquire (Feb 1937) The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1951) Read
"The Long Way Out" Esquire (Sep 1937) Read
"Financing Finnegan" Esquire (Jan 1938) Read
"The Lost Decade" Esquire (Dec 1939) Read
"Strange Sanctuary" Liberty (Dec 1939) Not part of a collection written in 1936 as "Make Yourself at Home". Intended as fourth Gwen story.
Read
"Pat Hobby’s Christmas Wish" Esquire (Jan 1940) The Pat Hobby Stories (1962) Read
"A Man in the Way" Esquire (Feb 1940) Read
"‘Boil Some Water - Lots of It’" Esquire (March 1940) Read
"Teamed with Genius" Esquire (April 1940) Read
"Pat Hobby and Orson Welles" Esquire (May 1940) Read
"Pat Hobby’s Secret" Esquire (June 1940) Read
"Pat Hobby, Putative Father" Esquire (July 1940) Read
"The Homes of the Stars" Esquire (Aug 1940) Read
"Pat Hobby Does His Bit" Esquire (Sep 1940) Read
"Pat Hobby’s Preview" Esquire (Oct 1940) Read
"No Harm Trying" Esquire (Nov 1940) Read
"A Patriotic Short" Esquire (Dec 1, 1940) Read

Posthumously[edit]

Title Publication Collected in E-text / Note
"Three Hours Between Planes" Esquire (July 1, 1941) The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1951) Read
"News of Paris — Fifteen Years Ago" Furioso (Winter 1947) Afternoon of an Author (1958) written in 1940
"On the Trail of Pat Hobby" Esquire (Jan 1, 1941) The Pat Hobby Stories (1962) Read
"Fun in an Artist’s Studio" Esquire (Feb 1, 1941) Read
"Two Old-Timers" Esquire (March 1, 1941) Read
"Mightier than the Sword" Esquire (April 1, 1941) Read
"Pat Hobby’s College Days" Esquire (May 1, 1941) Read
"That Kind of Party" The Princeton University Library Chronicle (Summer 1951) The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973)
"Last Kiss" Collier's (April 16, 1949) Bits of Paradise (1974) written in 1940
"Dearly Beloved" Fitzgerald / Hemingway Annual (Jan 1, 1969)
"On an Ocean Wave" Esquire (Feb 1, 1941) The Price Was High (1979) written as Paul Elgin
"The Woman from Twenty-One" Esquire (June 1, 1941) 1. Birmingham, Frederic A., ed. (1953). The girls from Esquire. London: Arthur Barker.

2. The Price Was High (1979)

"Discard" Harper’s Bazaar (Jan 1948) The Price Was High (1979) written in July 1939 as "Director's Special"
"Lo, the Poor Peacock" Esquire (Sep 1, 1971) written in 1935;
declined by Saturday Evening Post
"On Your Own" Esquire (Jan 30, 1979) written in 1931
"Gods of Darkness" Redbook (Nov 1941) Not part of a collection written in 1934, part of planned Philippe stories
"The Broadcast We Almost Heard Last September" Furioso (Fall 1947)
"The World’s Fair" The Kenyon Review (Autumn 1948)
"A Full Life" The Princeton University Library Chronicle (Winter 1988)
"Thank You for the Light" The New Yorker (August 6, 2012) I'd Die For You (2017) written in 1936;
declined by The New Yorker
"The Women in the House"
(1936; original version)
"Temperature"
(2015: short version with a new title)[1][2]
The Strand Magazine (July-Sept 2015)
"The I.O.U." "The I.O.U." The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 5. March 20, 2017. pp. 80–87. written 1920;
declined by Harper's Bazaar
"The Couple" Never published written between Apr 1920 and Oct 1922
"Nightmare"
aka "Fantasy in Black"
Never published written in 1932;
parts used for Tender is the Night
"What to Do About It" Never published written 1933;
declined by Saturday Evening Post
"Travel Together" Never published written in 1934
"Gracie at Sea" Never published written in 1934;
movie treatment with Robert Spafford
"I'd Die for You"
aka "The Legend of Lake Lure"
Never published written in 1935
"The Pearl and the Fur" Never published written in 1935;
declined by Saturday Evening Post
"Day off from Love" Never published written between 1935 and 1936; fragment
"Cyclone in Silent Land" Never published written in 1936;
declined by Saturday Evening Post
"Thumbs Up" Never published written in 1936;
early version of "The End of Hate" 1940
"Dentist Appointment" Never published written in 1937;
another version of "The End of Hate" 1940
"Offside Play"
aka "Athletic Interval"
Never published written in 1937;
declined by Saturday Evening Post
"Ballet Shoes"
aka "Ballet Slippers"
Fitzgerald / Hemingway Annual (Jan 1, 1976) written in 1936;
movie treatment
"Salute to Lucy and Elsie" Never published written in 1939;
declined by Esquire
"Love is a Pain" Never published written in 1939/40;
screenplay

Cambridge Edition[edit]

Cambridge University Press published the complete works of F. Scott Fitzgerald in annotated editions.[3]

The Great Gatsby[edit]

  1. The Great Gatsby (1991) | ISBN 9780521402309
  2. Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby (2000) | ISBN 9780521402378
  3. The Great Gatsby: An Edition of the Manuscript (2018) | ISBN 9781108426800
  4. The Great Gatsby: A Variorum Edition (2019) | ISBN 9780521766203

Other books[edit]

Adaptations[edit]

Film

Television

Opera

Lost manuscripts[edit]

In 2004, the University of South Carolina purchased a newly discovered cache of 2,000 pages of screenplay work that Fitzgerald wrote for MGM while in Hollywood.[4] The cache demonstrates that Fitzgerald put considerable effort into his attempts at screenwriting during his final years.[4] He approached each screenplay assignment by MGM as if it were a novel, and he wrote extensive back-stories for every character before typing a single word of dialogue.[4] Despite these herculean efforts, the studio nonetheless found his work unsatisfactory and chose not to renew his contract.[4]

In 2015, The Strand Magazine published an 8,000-word lost manuscript by Fitzgerald entitled "Temperature", dated July 1939.[5] Long thought lost, the manuscript was found by a researcher in Princeton's archives.[5] The story recounts the illness and decline of an alcoholic writer among Hollywood idols in Los Angeles while suffering lingering fevers and indulging in light-hearted romance with a Hollywood actress.[5] Two years later, Scribner's published a rediscovered cache of Fitzgerald's short stories in a collection titled I'd Die For You.[6]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ The Strand Magazine, "Unpublished Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald" - "Temperature", New York, July-Sept 2015 Quarterly Issue (copyright - Eleanor Lanahan & Christopher T. Byrne, Trustees under agreement dated Jan. 25, 1975, created by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith - "Temperature", F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books & Special Collections, Princeton Univ. Library).[1] Retrieved 2015-08-03
  2. ^ Hillel Italie - "Long-lost Fitzgerald Story Finally Published", The Associated Press, Aug. 2, 2015 ..[2] Retrieved 2015-08-03
  3. ^ "The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald – Series – Academic and Professional Books". Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2013-01-05.
  4. ^ a b c d McGrath 2004.
  5. ^ a b c Begley 2015; Miller 2015.
  6. ^ McAlpin 2017.

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