Max Perkins: Legendary Literary Editor — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Max first met Fitzgerald in the army…

After high school Max, like generations of Perkins’ before him, went to Harvard, and his best friend there — who arrived a year after Max — was Van Wyck Brooks, who was to become America’s greatest literary historian, with a string of hugely popular, and readable books, such as ‘The World of Washington Irving’, ‘New England…