Trivia / Tender Is the Night

• Creator Breakdown: Fitzgerald started working on the novel in 1925, but left it unfinished from 1926 to 1932, at which point he made it into a darker story.
• Write What You Know: Aside from the obvious high society Fitzgerald was acquantited with appearing in the novel, Dick Diver's trouble with alcohol and his wife's tenuous mental state were clearly inspired by Fitzgerald's own alcoholism and Zelda Fitzgerald's history of mental illness.