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Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

A. Scott Berg

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Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

Max Perkins: Editor of Genius won the National Book Award. The talents he nurtured 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 editor but also as critic, career manager, moneylender, psychoanalyst, father-confessor, and friend. This outstanding biography is the first to explore the fascinating life of this genius editor extraordinaire—in both the professional and personal domains. It tells not only of Perkins's stormy marriage, endearing eccentricities, and secret twenty-five-year romance with Elizabeth Lemmon, but also of his intensely intimate relationships with the leading literary lights of the twentieth century.

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Publisher
Penguin
Year
2008
ISBN-13
9781101494301
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Literary editingPublishing history20th-century American literature

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