Zelda and Scott’s Creative Communion:

“According to a letter F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, just before publication of THE GREAT GATSBY, Scott didn’t fully know what Jay Gatsby looked like until his wife, Zelda, drew Gatsby so many times she’d exhausted her fingers. It was a passing detail in a long series of letters to Perkins, but upon close examination, it touched on the degree of the mania of creation Zelda shared with Scott throughout his career, including the time he wrote THE GREAT GATSBY.”