Max Perkins

Editor of Genius: National Book Award Winner

A. Scott Berg

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Berkley
02 September 2008

Biography; Biography: general; Media, information & communication industries

The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg is now celebrating its 40th anniversary.

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 Perkins’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.”

The basis for the Major Motion Picture Genius, Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, and Jude Law.

By: A. Scott Berg
Imprint: Berkley
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 542g
ISBN: 9780425223376
ISBN 10: 042522337X
Pages: 498
Publication Date: 02 September 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Max Perkins: Editor of Genius: National Book Award Winner

?A highly readable work of literary history.? ? New York Times Book Review ?An extraordinarily fine and moving portrait of the man who assembled America's finest literary gang.? ?Russell Baker ?A work that does honor to the subject.? ? Chicago Tribune ?A. Scott Berg has?(perhaps just in the nick of time) rescued Perkins from permanent obscurity.? ? Atlantic Monthly