Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A Scott Berg

Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A Scott Berg

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 extraordinare--in both the professional and personal domains. It tells not only of Perkin's 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, an admirable biography of a wholly admirable man.

Scott Berg's books include Wilson (2013), a well-received biography of the 28th president, Lindbergh (1998), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Goldwyn (1989), and Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978), which won the National Book Award. An editorial advisory group composed of four eminent American World War I historians: Jennifer Keene (Chapman University), Edward Lengel (University of Virginia), Michael Neiberg (Army War College), and Chad Williams (Brandeis University) aided him in the development of this edition.

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ISBN 13	9781573226219
ISBN 10	1573226211
Title	Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Author	A Scott Berg
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2008-02-05
Number of pages	16
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