Readers will experience here Fitzgerald writing about controversial topics, depicting young men and women who actually spoke and thought more as young men and women did, without censorship. All were lost, in one sense or another: lost in the painful shuffle of the difficulties of Fitzgerald’s life in the middle 1930s lost to readers because contemporary editors did not understand or accept what he was trying to write lost because archives are like that. Some of the eighteen stories were physically lost, coming to light only in the past few years. Others are stories that could not be sold because their subject matter or style departed from what editors expected of Fitzgerald.
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Some were written as movie scenarios and sent to studios or producers, but not filmed. Some were submitted individually to major magazines during the 1930s and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald’s lifetime, but never printed. Scott Fitzgerald’s stories never widely shared.
I’d Die For You, edited by Anne Margaret Daniel, is a collection of F. “His best readers will find much to enjoy” ( The New York Times Book Review). “A treasure trove of tales too dark for the magazines of the 1930s. Scott Fitzgerald, the iconic American writer of The Great Gatsby who is more widely read today than ever. A collection of the last remaining unpublished and uncollected short stories by F.