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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 .
Jun 6, 2016 · Following his graduation from Harvard College in 1907, Maxwell Perkins was employed as a reporter at The New York Times. In 1910, he took a job at the respected publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons. He married Louise Saunders that same year (portrayed by Laura Linney in the movie).
Jun 13, 2024 · 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.
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.
Jun 13, 2016 · Maxwell Evarts Perkins was unknown to the general public, but to people in the world of books he was a major figure, a kind of hero. For he was the consummate editor.
Aug 1, 2013 · Max Perkins: Editor of Genius. A. Scott Berg. Simon and Schuster, Aug 1, 2013 - Biography & Autobiography - 496 pages. The talents Maxwell Perkins nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott...
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.
Sep 21, 2017 · Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins [1884-1947] and author F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] were born 12 years and thousands of miles apart. In my research into Perkins’ management style, I learned the details of the interesting story of how they were brought together.
Nov 15, 2017 · As with F. Scott Fitzgerald, his first major author, Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins [1884-1947] found Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961] through a chain of people—including Fitzgerald himself. Hemingway was recently home from the war, dumped by his nurse-girlfriend, Agnes, writing ads for Firestone Tires in Chicago.
Jan 26, 2021 · Maxwell Perkins was the editor who nurtured and ushered in a generation of writing talent that revolutionised literary life in 1920s America.
