Ironically, in a letter nine months earlier, Fitzgerald had advised his editor Max Perkins against publicizing the book through the newspaper.
His mother was the sister of Maxwell Perkins, an editor at the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons.
Ernest Hemingway was notably a fan, lauding it to Maxwell Perkins.
After working as a reporter for The New York Times, Perkins joined the venerable publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons in 1910.
Dahl began writing it after editor Maxwell Perkins expressed an interest in publishing a novel length book if Dahl were to write it.
On September 4, 1919, Fitzgerald gave the manuscript to a friend to deliver to Maxwell Perkins, an editor at Charles Scribner's Sons in New York.
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The editing was done by Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's, the most prominent book editor of the time, who also worked with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.