Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (551 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399584838 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Scott Berg's top-notch mix of history and anecdote. A Customer If you are an admirer of F.Scott Fitzgerald, Ring Lardner, Thomas Wolfe, Earnest Hemingway, Marjorie Rawlings; basically any significant American writer of fiction during the first half of this century--buy the book. Here's how I would put it: If those authors could send ONE, just one posthumous request for you to purchase a particular book, "Perkins: Edi. Very interesting readforget the movie! I bought this book to read prior to seeing the movie, Genius. The book is fascinating and reveals the absolute importance of this editor in nurturing (practically parenting in many cases) and contributing to the success of his writers. I just wish the movie would have followed the real stories in the book rather than inventing situations that weren't nece. "This was one of the best biographies I have ever read and I have read" according to Stephen. This was one of the best biographies I have ever read and I have read many. This bio about Max Perkins enlightened me about the role he played in the success of well known authors like Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, Jones, Rawlings. It was absolutely fascinating how Maxwell managed these ego maniacs. A. Scott Berg did a wonderful job of displaying Perkins
Scott Berg is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of five biographies: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, winner of the National Book Award; Goldwyn, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship; Lindbergh, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Kate Remembered, his biographical memoir of Kathar
Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and numerous others. Scott Berg. The talents he nurtured were known worldwide: F. 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. It is, in the words of Newsweek, “an admirable biography of a wholly admirable man.”. 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. 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. 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 cent
Scott Berg's detailed explication of Maxwell Perkins's work on the manuscripts of F. This 1978 National Book Award winner is a thorough, carefully considered account of a seminal period in American publishing. . A. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and a host of other important American writers shows how much the Scribner's editor contributed to their books, all the while maintaining that he only helped his authors find the best in themselves. The man who invented the modern profession of book editing finally got his due, 31 years after his death, when this revelatory biography appeared