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Tender is the Night is a novel penned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The title is taken from John Keats’s poem, Ode to a Nightingale. Summary of the Book This novel has dark and bleak elements as Fitzgerald himself was going through difficult times while writing it during the early 1930s. The story involves a glamorous couple, Dick and Nicole Diver. They live in a villa in the South of France and are surrounded mainly by Americans. Rosemary and her mother are also staying at the resort and the former starts to develop an infatuation for Dick. A few days later, a man named Jules Peterson, is found murdered on Rosemary’s bed. Dick covers up any implied relationship between the man and Rosemary. Find out the rest in this page-turner that will keep you gripped till the end. About F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is, to the present day, considered as one of the most renowned novelists and short story writers in English. He was much famous for his exemplary writings of the Jazz Age, a term coined by him. He spent most of his early childhood in Buffalo, New York. There, he studied at the Holy Angels Convent and then joined the Nardin Academy. His family later moved back to Minnesota in the year 1908, post which he joined the St. Paul Academy. Fitzgerald later enrolled in the Princeton University, but he dropped out to join the U.S. Army. Fitzgerald got married after he was discharged from the army. They had a daughter who was christened as Frances Scott Fitzgerald. He was associated with Hollywood as well. Some of his works have been adapted into movies which have been very famous. Fitzgerald died at the age of 44. He was, at the time, writing his last novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, and left it incomplete. Some of his notable works are The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.