Editor and publisher, born in New York City, USA. He joined Charles Scribner's as an editor in 1914, later holding various corporate offices there. He showed a genius for recognizing and fostering talent, publishing early works by F Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, and others.
Maxwell Evarts Perkins (September 20, 1884 – June 17, 1947) was the famous editor of novelists F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and others, at the publisher Charles Scribner's Sons during the first half of the 20th Century.
Born in New York City, Perkins graduated from Harvard in 1907. Maxwell had to fight to get the young man's book published, but finally after several rewrites, in 1920, This Side of Paradise went to the presses. Scott Fitzgerald, was only 24 years old and the youngest writer to be published at Scribner. Perkins and Fitzgerald ushered in the young jazz age at Scribner.
Perkin's correspondence with F. Scott Fitzgerald is collected in "Dear Scott, Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence," ed. Perkins' own life and career are chronicled in his biography, "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius" by A. Maxwell Perkins was the grandson of Secretary of State William M. His home is now on the National Registry of Historic Places
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