Max Perkins: The Legendary Scribner’s Editor

Perkins Handled Most of the New Wave of American Writers in the First Forty Years of the 20th Century…

Perkins. Image: Newsweek

Literary Editor, Max Perkins, was the man who made F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnin Rawlings, and so many more.

Every time Hemingway visited New York his first port of call was his publisher Charles Scribner’s & Sons — one of…