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Maxwell Perkins, photograph by World Telegram & Sun Al Ravenna, 1943. William Maxwell Evarts Perkins, (September 20, 1884 – June 17, 1947), legendary editor at Charles Scribner and Sons Publishing House, was most renowned for his mentoring of promising young American writers from the 1920s through the 1940s; including such notables as Ernest ...
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, a winner of the National Book Award, is the first to explore the fascinating life of this genius editor extraordinare ...
26 janv. 2021 · Maxwell Perkins was the editor who nurtured and ushered in a generation of writing talent that revolutionised literary life in 1920s America. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wolfe and others ...
13 juin 2016 · A. Scott Berg has almost single-handedly rescued Maxwell Perkins from the anonymity he desired. Berg’s 1978 biography, “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius,” was a masterly look at a reticent ...
Maxwell Perkins nel 1943. William Maxwell Max Evarts Perkins (New York, 20 settembre 1884 – Stamford, 17 giugno 1947) è stato un editore statunitense, ricordato per aver scoperto autori come Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald e Thomas Wolfe
5 juil. 2023 · Certainly Maxwell Perkins, considered by many the greatest book editor ever, left a monumental legacy in his thirty-seven years at the publisher Scribner’s, helping shape literature and guiding writers from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dawn Powell to Ernest Hemingway.
15 nov. 2017 · Posted on November 15, 2017 by American Writers Museum. As with F. Scott Fitzgerald, his first major author, Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins [1884-1947] found Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961] through a chain of people—including Fitzgerald himself. Hemingway was recently home from the war, dumped by his nurse-girlfriend, Agnes, writing ads for ...
