The Beautiful and Damned, first published by
Scribner's in 1922, is
F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York
café society and the American
Eastern elite during the
Jazz Age before and after "
the Great War" and in the early
1920s. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work is generally considered to have drawn upon and be based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with his wife
Zelda Fitzgerald.