Unreleased F Scott Fitzgerald short story finally published

Temperature, a cinematic ‘tale of high comedy’ written by the Great Gatsby author in 1939, is reproduced in US magazine the Strand

A short story by F Scott Fitzgerald discovered in the archives of Princeton University has finally been published, 75 years after the author of The Great Gatsby died of a heart attack, aged 44.

Andrew Gulli, who runs the Strand magazine, came across Fitzgerald’s 8,000-word story Temperature while digging through his papers at Princeton. He published it for the first time in the new issue of the Strand, alongside works by Ian Rankin and T Jefferson Parker.

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