{"product_id":"9781101494301","title":"Max Perkins: Editor of Genius: National Book Award Winner","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow the Major Motion Picture \u003ci\u003eGenius\u003c\/i\u003e, Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Jude Law.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe National Book Award winner from Pulitzer-Prize winning author A. Scott Berg.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe talents he nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and numerous others. But Maxwell Perkins remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as editor but also as critic, career manager, moneylender, psychoanalyst, father-confessor, and friend.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This outstanding biography, a winner of the National Book Award, is the first to explore the fascinating life of this genius editor \u003ci\u003eextraordinare\u003c\/i\u003e—in both the professional and personal domains. It tells not only of Perkin’s stormy marriage, endearing eccentricities, and secret twenty-five-year romance with Elizabeth Lemmon, but also of his intensely intimate relationships with the leading literary lights of the twentieth century. It is, in the words of \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, “an admirable biography of a wholly admirable man.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120816210160,"sku":"9781101494301","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101494301_p0.jpg?v=1763687233","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101494301","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}