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Article: 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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- Studies in the Novel
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- June 22, 2006
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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. 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 Perkins as editor and mentor to three of the best American novelists in the first half ...
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Article: The unruly genius of Thomas Wolfe
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February 1, 1987 ;
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... ... HomewardA Life of Thomas Wolfe. By David Herbert ... Brown. $24.95. Thomas Wolfe lives in American ... at Scribner's, Maxwell Perkins, transformed into ... discipline it. It was Maxwell Perkins who winnowed Look ...
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