Much of "The Beautiful and Damned", his 1922 novel about a self-destructive couple, now seems autobiographical
... hates the self-
destructive or lunatic behavior of writers that is so much celebrated and ... and in 
the major novels The Beautiful and Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), 
and... [DOC] [TLE] F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography - Brandeis Users' Home Pages [PAR] F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time.