The publication of Scott's fourth novel Tender Is the Night. The first printing had a run of 7,600 copies at $2.50 each which sold out quickly. There were 2 more print runs of 5,075 and 2,520. It was 10th on the best seller lists in Publishers Weekly for April and May. Although respectable for a novel published during the depression, Tender Is the Night did not meet Scott's expectations.
Zelda is transferred back to Sheppard-Pratt Hospital.
While in Sheppard-Pratt Hospital Zelda has chance to read the serialized version of Tender Is The Night. It affected her profoundly. Scott mercilessly exposed Zelda in his characterization of Nicole Diver. He drew upon Zelda's most private letters to him, written in the anguish of her early months of her illness in Switzerland. He snipped and pieced them together some of them virtually word for word with very little regard for Zelda's reaction or for the precarious balance of her sanity. Unlike Scott's censoring of Save Me The Waltz, Scott's fictional exploitation of Zelda's mental illness was laid bare fore everyone to read.
Zelda's articles Auction - Model 1934 and Show Mr and Mrs F to Number_ appear in Esquire.
Scott, convinced he has tuberculosis, stays at Oak Hill Hotel in Tryon, North Carolina, and then returns to Baltimore.
The publication of Scott's collection of stories Taps at Reveille .
Scott stays at Grove park Inn , Asheville, North Carolina. He visits Baltimore and New York. He is now chain smoking, drinking hard liquor, and downing some 30 cans of beer a day.
Scott takes an apartment with Scottie at Cambridge Arms, Charles Street, Baltimore.