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William Maxwell Evarts "Max" Perkins (September 20, 1884 – June 17, 1947) was an American book editor, best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Thomas Wolfe.
Maxwell Perkins (born Sept. 20, 1884, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died June 17, 1947, Stamford, Conn.) was an influential American editor who discovered many of the most prominent American writers of the first half of the 20th century. Perkins graduated from Harvard University in 1907.
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Jun 13, 2016 · Learn about the life and legacy of Maxwell Perkins, the editor who discovered and nurtured Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wolfe, and more. Read an excerpt from A. Scott Berg's biography of Perkins, based on his lecture to a class of aspiring publishers.
Sep 21, 2017 · Learn how Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins discovered and nurtured the talent of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise. Read about their correspondence, collaboration, and friendship in this blog post by Kathleen Dixon Donnelly.
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 Hemingway, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Thomas Wolfe.
Nov 15, 2017 · How did Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins discover and shape the young writer Ernest Hemingway? Read about their friendship, correspondence, and challenges in publishing Hemingway's novels and stories.
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Jun 11, 2016 · The idea began germinating in the 1980s, when John Logan read A. Scott Berg's biography of Maxwell Perkins, the editor famous for discovering Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But the...
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