What is the title of Fitzgerald's final completed novel?

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final completed novel was Tender Is the Night. Published in 1934, it was his fourth completed novel, following This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and The Great Gatsby.

Set mainly on the French Riviera, the novel follows Dick Diver, a gifted psychiatrist, and Nicole Diver, his wealthy patient and wife. Its themes of emotional collapse, alcoholism, marriage, and mental illness drew partly on Fitzgerald’s difficult experiences with Zelda Fitzgerald and his own struggles.

Fitzgerald began developing the book after The Great Gatsby appeared in 1925, but he revised it repeatedly over several years. He completed the final version in 1933, and Scribner’s serialized it in four parts before publishing the book on April 12, 1934.

A common mix-up is The Last Tycoon, which was Fitzgerald’s final novel project but remained unfinished when he died in 1940. It was published posthumously in edited form, so it is not his final completed novel. The title comes from John Keats’s poem “Ode to a Nightingale.”