Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American
writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in French Riviera during the twilight of
the Jazz Age, the novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, 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 descends into mental illness.