Scott Fitzgerald

Introduction Scott Fitzgerald wrote in one of his notebooks: 'There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He's too many people if he's any good.' (But he himself came out better than most. His biography by Arthur Mizener, called The Far Side of Paradise, is not only...

TENDER IS THE NIGHT BOOK ONE I On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half-way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud, rose-coloured hotel. Deferential pahns cool its flushed façade, and before it stretches a short dazzling beach. Lately it has become a...