{"product_id":"the-sons-of-maxwell-perkins-letters-of-f-scott-fitzgerald-ernest-hemingway-thomas-wolfe-and-their-editor","title":"The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald  Ernest Hemingway  Thomas Wolfe  and Their Editor","description":"\u003cp\u003eA unique look at a legendary editor and the literary giants he fostered  In April 1938 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his editor Maxwell Perkins  \"What a time youve had with your sons  MaxErnest gone to Spain  me gone to Hollywood  Tom Wolfe reverting to an artistic hill-billy.\" As the sole literary editor with name recognition among students of American literature  Perkins remains permanently linked to Fitzgerald  Hemingway  and Wolfe in literary history and literary myth. Their relationships  which were largely epistolary  play out in the 221 letters Matthew J. Bruccoli has assembled in this volume. The collection documents the extent of the fatherly forbearance  attention  and encouragement the legendary Scribners editor gave to his authorial sons. The correspondence portrays his ability to juggle the requirements of his three geniuses.  Perkins wanted his stars to be close friends and wrote to each of them about the others. They responded in kind: Fitzgerald on Hemingway and Wolfe  Wolfe on Fitzgerald  Hemingway on Wolfe and Fitzgerald. The novelists also wrote to each other. But contrary to Perkinss hopes for a brotherhood among them  their letters express rivalry and suspicion rather than affinity. Perkins encouraged the writers professionally but never took sides in their sibling rivalries.  Addressing an overlooked aspect of literary study  the letters center on the acts of writing  editing  and publishing  and on the writers relationships with Scribners and one another. In addition to providing insight into the personalities of these literary heroes  the correspondence reveals how editing and publishing have changed since the twenties and thirtiesa golden era for Scribners and for American literature. In particular  the letters correct the incomplete  oversimplified popular image of Perkins and his function as an editorespecially his relationship with Thomas Wolfe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946998755381,"sku":"ByrdShop_1570035482","price":53.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781570035487.jpg?v=1769976788","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-sons-of-maxwell-perkins-letters-of-f-scott-fitzgerald-ernest-hemingway-thomas-wolfe-and-their-editor","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}