Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Now the Major Motion Picture Genius, Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Jude Law. The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer-Prize winning author A. Scott Berg. 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, a winner of the National Book Award, is the first to explore the fascinating life of this genius editor extraordinareain both the professional and personal domains. It tells not only of Perkinas 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. It is, in the words of Newsweek, aan admirable biography of a wholly admirable man.a From the Trade Paperback edition.He kept thinking about the boy Lant in South Moon Under and wrote: I was simply going to suggest that you do a book about ... She was also afraid of not being able to surpass South Moon Under. aYou do have to do what you want to do in writing, a Perkins wrote her, aquot;but if you could put off the novel (and it would be ... Treasure Island, and The Hoosier School Boy: aAll of these books are primarily for boys.
| Title | : | Max Perkins: Editor of Genius |
| Author | : | A. Scott Berg |
| Publisher | : | Penguin - 2008-09-02 |
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