Max Perkins: Editor of Genius: National Book Award Winner, (Paperback)

from SESchend

Marking for reread as it's been nearly 15 or 20 years since I read this & the movie Genius made me blow the dust off my copy.

from Bruce_Deming

This book was browsed really not read. Perkins aided many famous popular authors such as F Scott Fitzgerald and Earnest Hemingway.I remember his advice to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings who wrote the Yearling which changed her from getting a lot of rejected manuscripts to getting published and having a...

from Bruce_Deming

This book was browsed really not read. Perkins aided many famous popular authors such as F Scott Fitzgerald and Earnest Hemingway.I remember his advice to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings who wrote the Yearling which changed her from getting a lot of rejected manuscripts to getting published and having a...

from Bruce_Deming

This book was browsed really not read. Perkins aided many famous popular authors such as F Scott Fitzgerald and Earnest Hemingway. I remember his advice to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings who wrote the Yearling which changed her from getting a lot of rejected manuscripts to getting published and having...

from stacy_chambers

Excellent, sympathetic account of a gentle man and excellent editor. One thing I've wondered since reading this book is if anyone has taken Thomas Wolfe's brain tumors into account regarding his rift with Perkins shortly before his death. It just seems bizarre that Wolfe would turn on Perkins the...