The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor
In April 1938 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his editor Maxwell \ Perkins, “What a time you’ve had with your sons, Max—Ernest gone to Spain, me \ gone to Hollywood, Tom Wolfe reverting to an artistic hill-billy.” As the sole \ literary editor with name recognition among students of American literature, \ Perkins remains permanently linked to Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wolfe in \ literary history and literary myth. Their relationships, which were largely \ epistolary, play out in the 221 letters...
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More than 200 letters document the fatherly attention and encouragement the legendary editor gave the authors he's most closely linked with in history and myth. The letters center on the acts of writing, editing, and publishing, as well as on the writers' relationship with the Scribner's publishing house and with each other. The correspondence provides insights on how publishing has changed since that golden era of American literature and also corrects the oversimplified image that has survived of Perkins and his function as an editor. Bruccoli has written or edited some 70 volumes about or by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wolfe. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
List of IllustrationsxiPrefacexiiiIntroductionxviiChronologyxxxiLetters1Appendix 1Thomas Wolfe's Portrait of Maxwell Perkins in You Can't Go Home Again331Appendix 2"Thomas Wolfe: A Writer for the People of His Time and Tomorrow" and "Ernest Hemingway"339Appendix 3Sources and Background Reading345Index347
