In April 1938 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his editor Maxwell Perkins, ""What a time you've had with your sons, Max - Ernest 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 Perkins's hopes for a brotherhood among them, their letters express rivalry and suspicion rather than affinity. Perkins encouraged the writers professionally b

About the Author
Matthew J. Bruccoli is the leading authority on F. Scott Fitzgerald. He has written or edited nearly seventy volumes by or about Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. Bruccoli lives in Columbia, South Carolina. Judith S. Baughman is the author of F. Scott Fitzgerald in the series Literary Masters and a coeditor of books about Fitzgerald. She also lives in Columbia.


Book Information
ISBN 9781570035487
Author Matthew J. Bruccoli
Format Hardback
Page Count 384
Imprint University of South Carolina Press
Publisher University of South Carolina Press