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Tender is the Night, the title is taken from John Keats’s poem, Ode to a Nightingale, is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel by the same author, compiled and published posthumously. Summary of the Book Tender is the Night is a story set in the debauched high society of Europe during the 'Roaring Twenties', and has dark and bleak elements as Fitzgerald himself is told to have gone through while writing. The story has a trendy couple, Dick and Nicole Diver, who own a villa in the South of France and are encircled mainly by Americans. Rosemary and her mother also live at the resort and the former starts developing a fascination for Dick. A few days later, a man named Jules Peterson, is found killed on Rosemary’s bed. Dick covers up any obscure hint at a connection between the man and Rosemary. Will they be successful in hiding it? Find out the rest in this fast-paced novel that will keep you gripped throughout. The Love of the Last Tycoon or The Last Tycoon is inspired by the life of film producer Irving Thalberg, on whom protagonist Monroe Stahr is based. The story follows Stahr's wonderful rise to power in Hollywood, and his disputes with competitor, Pat Brady, a character based on studio head Louis B. Mayer. 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. He married Zelda Sayre 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, This Side of Paradise, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.