Max Perkins, Editor of Genius
- ISBN-10
- 0399584838
- ISBN-13
- 9780399584831
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 498
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- A. Scott Berg
Description
Traces the life of the influential book editor who worked with Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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