FREEMAX PERKINS: EDITOR OF GENIUS EBOOK A. Scott Berg | 496 pages | 13 Oct 2016 | Simon & Schuster Ltd | 9781471147043 | English | London, United Kingdom Max Perkins, Editor of Genius - Andrew Scott Berg - Google книги Editor of Genius indeed A. Scott Berg's biography of Max Perkins, the editor of Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, shows how some of the greatest American novels of the 20th century were shaped by his skill, patience, and Perkins' own remarkable talent. Scott Berg was born in Norwalk, Connecticut on December 4, He became fascinated with novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald while he was in high school. Berg even went so far as to attend Princeton University, from which he graduated inmainly because it was Fitzgerald's alma mater. While studying 20th-century literature at Princeton, Berg noticed that one name - that of editor Max Perkins - kept coming up in connection with authors such as Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wolfe. He Max Perkins: Editor of Genius to base his senior thesis on Max Perkins. Berg's research on Perkins continued for Max Perkins: Editor of Genius years after graduation, eventually culminating in the publication of Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, which received the American Book Award. Lindbergh won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in He also wrote the story for a film entitled Making Love Max Perkins, Editor of Genius. Andrew Scott Berg. This "highly readable work of literary history" New York Times Book Review is the first to explore the professional and personal life of editor extraordinaire Maxwell Petkins -- guiding light for such stellar literary figures as E Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius Wolfe, and many more. Meticulously researched, surprisingly revealing, and highly praised by critics, it earned the National Book Award for Biography -- a testament not only to its impeccable scholarship but to its extraordinarily accessible prose. Packed with anecdotes from the age of giants, this unique work will not only inspire Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, editors, and book lovers, but anyone interested in learning more about the genius behind the scenes, who "turns out to be as fascinating, dark, complex, and sad as any of his golden boys" Russell Baker. All rights reserved. Max Perkins: Editor of Genius A. The Real Thing. Maxwell Perkins - Wikipedia Look Inside. Scott Berg is now celebrating its 40th anniversary. 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. 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We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again later. Become a Member Start earning points for buying books! Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg Evartsand Edward Clifford Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, a lawyer. Although an Max Perkins: Editor of Genius major in college, Perkins also studied under Charles Townsend Copelanda literature professor who helped prepare Perkins for his career. However, Perkins wished to publish younger writers. Unlike most editors, he actively sought out promising new artists; he made his first big find in when he signed F. Scott Fitzgerald. Initially, no one at Scribner's except Perkins had liked The Romantic Egotistthe working title of Fitzgerald's first novel, and it was rejected. Even so, Perkins worked with Fitzgerald to revise the manuscript until it was accepted by the publishing house. Its publication as This Side of Paradise marked the arrival of a new literary generation that would always be associated with Perkins. Fitzgerald's profligacy and alcoholism strained his relationship with Perkins. Nonetheless, Perkins remained Fitzgerald's friend to the end of Fitzgerald's short life, in addition to his editorial relationship with the author, particularly evidenced in The Great Gatsby Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, which benefited substantially from Perkins' criticism. Perkins fought for it over objections to Hemingway's profanity raised by traditionalists in the firm. The commercial success of Hemingway's next novel, A Farewell to Armswhich topped the best-seller list, silenced colleagues' questions about Perkins' editorial judgment. The greatest professional challenge Perkins faced was posed by Thomas Wolfe 's lack of Max Perkins: Editor of Genius self-discipline. Wolfe wrote voluminously and was greatly attached to each sentence he wrote. After a tremendous struggle, Perkins induced Wolfe to cut 90, words from his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel His next, Of Time and the Riverwas the result of a two-year battle during which Wolfe kept writing more and more pages in the face of an ultimately victorious effort by Perkins to hold the line on size. Wolfe left Scribner's after numerous fights with Perkins. Despite this, Perkins served as Wolfe's literary executor after his early death in and was considered by Wolfe to be his closest friend. Although his reputation as an editor is most closely linked to these three, Perkins worked with many other writers. He was the first to publish J. Marquand and Erskine Caldwell. His advice was responsible for the success of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlingswhose The Yearling grew out of suggestions made by Perkins. It became a best-seller and won the Pulitzer Prize. His penultimate discovery was James Joneswho approached Perkins in Perkins persuaded Jones to abandon the autobiographical novel he was working on and launched him on what would become From Here to Eternity By this time, Perkins' health was failing and he did not live to see its success, nor that of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Seawhich was dedicated to his memory. Max Perkins: Editor of Genius was noted for his courtesy and thoughtfulness. He also recognized skilled writing wherever he found it and encouraged writers as few editors did. That Ring Lardner has a reputation today, for example, is because Perkins saw him as more than a syndicated humorist. Perkins believed in Lardner more than the writer did, and despite the failure of several earlier collections he coaxed Lardner into letting him assemble another under the title How To Write Short Stories The book sold well and, thanks to excellent reviews, established Lardner as a literary figure. Apart from his roles as coach, friend, and promoter, Perkins was unusual among editors for the close and detailed attention he gave to books, and for what the novelist Vance Bourjailyanother of his discoveries, called his "infallible sense of structure. By combining these different editorial activities into his work, Perkins might be considered to be the first authors' editor. Scholar Matthew Bruccoli described Perkins as the most widely known literary editor of American literature. In Perkins married Louise Saunders, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius of Plainfield, who bore him five daughters. Perkins died on June 17, in Stamford, Connecticut from pneumonia. She left the home to family members, including her son Maxwell. The home stayed in the family untiland has been restored and reopened as the Snapdragon Inn. The inn houses the Maxwell Perkins Library, which displays and collects items related to Maxwell Perkins and his extended family. In the biographical drama film Geniusbased on A. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. New York CityUnited States. Stamford, ConnecticutUS. Maxwell Perkins — is the only literary editor of whom students of American literature and most of their teachers have heard. Chicago Tribune. Maxwell Evarts Perkins, the authors' editor, a study of a climate for creativity Ed. Doctoral thesis. University of Florida. Retrieved August 25, Roger Ebert. Retrieved April 15, Scott Fitzgerald works. Scott Fitzgerald The Vegetable, or From President to Postman The Crack-Up Beloved Infidel film F. Bruccoli Max Perkins: Editor of Genius editor Ginevra King Max Perkins: Editor of Genius model. Ernest Hemingway. Death in the Afternoon Green Hills of Africa Thomas Wolfe.