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The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor.(Book Review)

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From: The Hemingway Review
Date: 20040922
Author:Panda, Kenneth

The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina Press, 2004. 361 pp. Hardcover $29.95.

The names of Ernest Hemingway, E Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe are indelibly woven into the fabric of 20th-century American literature, each man having achieved a certain legendary status in his own lifetime. Maxwell Perkins, their editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, has been elevated to the level of an icon in an industry that has few. ...

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