Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
The National Book Award winner from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, A. Scott Berg. \ The talents he nurtured as an editor were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and numerous others. But Maxwell Perkins remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as book editor extraordinaire but also as critic, career manager, money-lender, psychoanalyst, father-confessor, and friend.\ This outstanding biography, a winner...
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The National Book Award winner from the #1 New York Times bestselling author is now in Berkley trade for the first time—and celebrating its 30th anniversary.The talents he nurtured became worldwide literary legends—among them, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. But Maxwell Perkins remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as editor extraordinaire but also as critic, psychoanalyst, father-confessor, and devoted friend. But who really was Maxwell Perkins? “Now the mystery has been solved, in A. Scott Berg's exhaustive, penetrating, and wholly satisfying biography” (Miami Herald).New York Times Book ReviewA highly readable work of literary history.
\ Chicago TribuneA work that does honor to the subject.\ \ \ \ \ Atlantic MonthlyA. Scott Berg has...(perhaps just in the nick of time) rescued Perkins from permanent obscurity.\ \ \ New York Times Book ReviewA highly readable work of literary history.\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalBerg nailed the National Book Award for this portrait of the house of Scribner's legendary editor. Perkins's close, personal relationships with Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe are well documented by literary scholars, but he also was a force behind other noted authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, convincing her to write The Yearling, and James Jones, whose From Here to Eternity was the last book Perkins edited. Anyone with a healthy interest in these writers generally are curious about Perkins as well, since he looms large in their legends, and will want to read this. Academic collections certainly should own a copy, but public libraries also should invest. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.\ \
