Fitzgerald drew inspiration from his own marriage to Zelda Sayre. As Fitzgerald succumbed to alcoholism and his wife to insanity, their marriage disintegrated. Fitzgerald's last complete novel, Tender Is the Night, is largely an examination of what had gone wrong in their lives.

David Silvette pastarted this portrait. He had met Fitzgerald at a party in 1935 and convinced the author to sit for the portrait, even though Fitzgerald was suffering from an emotional breakdown at the time.

Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery