Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the 1934 novel chronicles the rise an
The cover of the first edition
The French Riviera serves as the setting for the first third of the novel.
Gerald and Sara Murphy, upon whom characters in Tender Is the Night were based
Actress Lois Moran, with whom Fitzgerald had a relationship, inspired the character of Rosemary Hoyt
Zelda Fitzgerald was an American novelist, painter, writer, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. In 1920
Tender Is the Night
…a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients. The story mirrors events in the lives of the author and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald as Dick starts his descent into alcoholism and Nicole struggles with mental illness. Fitzgerald began the novel in 1925 after the publication of his…
F. Scott Fitzgerald photographed in 1917, a few months before meeting Zelda in Montgomery, Alabama
While courting Zelda Sayre, F. Scott Fitzgerald continued to write to Ginevra King, a socialite and heiress, begging her to resume their former relationship.
After marrying in April 1920, Zelda became homesick for the Deep South, prompting her and Scott to embark on a road trip that summer to visit her family in Montgomery, Alabama