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2 de sept. de 2008 · But Maxwell Perkins remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as editor but also as critic, career manager, moneylender, psychoanalyst, father-confessor, and friend. This outstanding biography, a winner of the National Book Award, is the first to explore the fascinating life of this genius editor extraordinare —in both the professional and personal domains.
1 de abr. de 2018 · 3. Maxwell Evarts Perkins, editor de libros. «Detesto profundamente que escriban sobre mí. […] Es más, pienso que un editor tiene que ser anónimo. Debe quitarse importancia, o que se sepa que la rehúye, porque son los escritores los que tienen importancia en su vida». Este era el principio por el que se regía un hombre modesto y ...
16 de dic. de 2016 · Maxwell Perkins, el legendario descubridor de F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway y Thomas Wolfe, no sólo tenía un don para inspirar a sus autores y sacar lo mejor de ellos, sino que también los ayudaba a estructurar sus libros y a pensar títulos, al tiempo que los escuchaba y les prestaba dinero”. Colin Firth y Jude Law, que pertenece ...
11 de jun. de 2016 · The idea began germinating in the 1980s, when John Logan read A. Scott Berg's biography of Maxwell Perkins, the editor famous for discovering Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
6 de jun. de 2016 · Yes. Fact-checking the Genius movie confirmed that Thomas Wolfe's tendency to not want to cut anything from his novels and to continually want to add more pages, presented a challenge for his editor, Max Perkins. At the insistence of Perkins, Wolfe reluctantly agreed to cut 90,000 words from his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929).
Maxwell Perkins. Maxwell Perkins (1943). William Maxwell Evarts "Max" Perkins (20 de setembro de 1884 – 17 de junho 1947), era um editor de livros do começo do século XX. É lembrado por ter descoberto e lançado autores norte-americanos como Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald e Thomas Wolfe. Perkins é descrito como o mais amplamente ...
1 de ene. de 2001 · Maxwell Perkins was father, brother, therapist, drinking buddy, life coach, babysitter, priest, and banker to some of American literature’s most well-known figures—most prominently Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway. This is a book as much about them as about Perkins, and the result was sometimes exhausting.
