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Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, a "relaxed portrayal of privileged young people in pursuit of pleasure", was an overnight sensation in 1920 selling out its first printing of 3,000 within three days and allowing Fitzgerald--with his financial prospects much improved--to marry Zelda Sayre.
He followed it quickly (1922) with The Beautiful and Damned which portrays its protagonist from decadent bachelorhood into a glamorous but destructive marriage and drunken disintegration. Reviewers were favorable and recognized that Fitzgerald had tried something more difficult.
Tender is the Night was published in 1934, nine years after Gatsby. It follows Nicole and Dick Diver to a villa in the south of France gradually revealing the story of their past as their present unfolds. It was originally published as a serial in Scribner's magazine.
Fitzgerald was at work on what is now called The Last Tycoon when he died in 1940. The unfinished manuscript was eventually edited to completion by Edmund Wilson.
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