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Bruccoli, Matthew J. and Judith S. Baughman, eds. The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor.(Book review)

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20060622
Author:Meier, Thomas K.

BRUCCOLI, MATTHEW J. and JUDITH S. BAUGHMAN, eds. The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. xxxiii + 361 pp. $29.95.

With numerous volumes of correspondence of these four literary figures readily available, one may wonder what purpose the letters collected in The Sons of Maxwell Perkins might serve. Yet by presenting them together, and focusing them on the writings and literary biographies of the authors, this approach sheds new light on the role of Maxwell ...

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