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While renting a home called " La Paix " on the estate of Baltimore architect Bayard Turnbull, Fitzgerald wrote the final version of Tender Is the Night in 1932 and 1933.

He salvaged almost everything he had written for the Melarkey draft of the novel in some form or other, and also borrowed ideas, images, and phrases from many short stories he had written in the years since completing The Great Gatsby.

Ultimately, he poured everything he had into Tender – his feelings about his own wasted talent and ( self-perceived ) professional failure and stagnation ; his feelings about his parents ( who on a symbolic level provided much of the inspiration for Dick and Nicole Diver ); about his marriage, and Zelda's illness, and psychiatry ( about which he had learned a great deal during her treatment ); about his affair with Lois Moran, and Zelda's with the French aviator Edouard Jozan ( paralleled in the relationship between Nicole Diver and Tommy Barban ).