<p>F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tender is the Night tells the story of rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst, and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald worked on the book, were the darkest years of his life, and the novel's bleakness reflects the author's own experiences.</p>