Written in 1920 (five years before The Great Gatsby) The IOU remained an unpublished story until The New Yorker discovered and brought it to light in 2017. Apparently, it was meant to be published in Harper's Bazaar, but Francis Scott Fitzgerald kept it for himself and never submitted it. This is the tale of a publisher who has just hired a very successful book: the memoir of a doctor turned spiritualist, entitled The Aristocracy of the Spiritual World. After a launch of half a million copies, the publisher decides to visit the author to sign for his next book.