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Maxwell (Evarts) Perkins

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From: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Date: 20070301
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(born Sept. 20, 1884, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died June 17, 1947, Stamford, Conn.) U.S. editor. He worked as a reporter for The New York Times before joining the publishing firm of Charles Scribner's Sons, of which he later became editorial director and vice president. He is best known for the intensive editorial work that shaped Thomas Wolfe 's sprawling manuscripts into publishable form, but he also assisted the early careers of F. Scott Fitzgerald , Ernest Hemingway , Ring Lardner , Erskine Caldwell , Edmund Wilson , and Alan Paton .

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