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Overview

The National Book Award winner from the #1 New York Times bestselling author is now in Berkley trade for the first time-and celebrating its 30th anniversary.

The talents he nurtured became worldwide literary legends-among them, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. But Maxwell Perkins remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as editor extraordinaire but also as critic, psychoanalyst, father-confessor, and devoted friend. But who really was Maxwell Perkins? ?Now the mystery has been solved, in A. Scott Berg's exhaustive, penetrating, and wholly satisfying biography? (Miami Herald).

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Overview

The National Book Award winner from the #1 New York Times bestselling author is now in Berkley trade for the first time-and celebrating its 30th anniversary.

The talents he nurtured became worldwide literary legends-among them, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. But Maxwell Perkins remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as editor extraordinaire but also as critic, psychoanalyst, father-confessor, and devoted friend. But who really was Maxwell Perkins? ?Now the mystery has been solved, in A. Scott Berg's exhaustive, penetrating, and wholly satisfying biography? (Miami Herald).

Editorial Reviews

Atlantic Monthly
A. Scott Berg has...(perhaps just in the nick of time) rescued Perkins from permanent obscurity.
Chicago Tribune
A work that does honor to the subject.
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New York Times Book Review
A highly readable work of literary history.
Library Journal
Berg nailed the National Book Award for this portrait of the house of Scribner's legendary editor. Perkins's close, personal relationships with Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe are well documented by literary scholars, but he also was a force behind other noted authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, convincing her to write The Yearling, and James Jones, whose From Here to Eternity was the last book Perkins edited. Anyone with a healthy interest in these writers generally are curious about Perkins as well, since he looms large in their legends, and will want to read this. Academic collections certainly should own a copy, but public libraries also should invest. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781573226219
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 6/28/1997
  • Pages: 512
  • Product dimensions: 6.06 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.13 (d)

Meet the Author

A. Scott Berg is the author of four bestselling biographies: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, which won the National Book Award; Goldwyn, for which he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship; the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lindbergh; and the #1 New York Times bestseller Kate Remembered.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 4, 2007

    TOP LITERARY MIDWIFE

    Scott Berg's biography of Max Perkins is a smooth, readable account of America's greatest editor in the prewar period, the midwife for works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe in the twenties and thirties, when big-time publishing converged on New York. Berg's book is cunningly organized: the reader steps at once into the rough and tumble of editorial work at Scribner's, leaving Perkins' early life, marriage, and family to be described in concise digressions taken only after another satisfying dollop of publishing history. Unhappily, once Perkins has delivered his discoveries to the public, the rest is mostly about their boozy extravagance (Fitzgerald), bullying ego trips (Hemingway), and petulant indiscipline verging on insanity (Wolfe). So even if, for this reason, you stop two-thirds of the way through, your curiosity about this key figure in modern literary history will be very well satisfied.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 18, 2002

    great man/great bio

    Scott Berg has written a wonderful biography on one of the most important men in American literature, Max Perkins. Berg's book is well-written and very entertaining. It is more than a biography of Perkins, it is also a biography of Hemingway, Scott Fiztgerald, and Thomas Wolfe, and a portrait of America during the first half of the 20th century. This is one of those books that I could go on and on about. It is a book that everyone should read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 9, 2001

    Editor and Friend

    This book is a lesson in what it means to be a friend. Max Perkins was obviously a person who instinctivly knew how to prod, push, prompt and patch things up with some of the most delicate and talented authors of our century. How he balanced F.S.F. and worked for him even after his death. How he surrounded the giant ego of Hemingway.Also, how he carried the weight of Wolfe. This all wrapped up in a man who was also a loving family man and Husband. All this accomplished by the quiet genius under the fedora.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 16, 2000

    A Must for Modern American Lit. buffs

    Most readers have heard of Scott Fitzgerald,Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe. Few people know they shared the same editor along with Taylor Caldwell, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and other literary luminaries of the early 20th century. Scott Berg penned a wonderful portrait of the editor who brought out the best in all of them.

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