Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947
Person
Biography
William Maxwell Evarts "Max" Perkins was an American book editor, best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Thomas Wolfe.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Ernest Hemingway ephemera
Collection
Identifier: 1977-003
Scope and Contents
Series 1: Consists of 62 handwritten, typed or carbon copy typed letters, postcards, and telegrams to and/or from Hemingway and correspondents such as: the American Red Cross (to the French Consul in reference to Hemingway's appointment as an ambulance driver on the Italian front during WWI); publishers Curtis Brown Ltd., Jonathan Cape Limited, and A. P. Watt & Son; Marcel Duhanel, Ethel Feutress Gardner (to Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's mother), Carol Hemingway, Guy Hickock,...
Dates:
1918 - 1968
F. Scott Fitzgerald ephemera, 1919-1976
File
Identifier: 1976-003
Scope and Contents
The ephemera is grouped into five series: Correspondence, Writings, Photographs, Miscellaneous, and Library.The correspondence consists of photocopied and photographically reproduced autograph letters by Fitzgerald and two greeting cards signed by Zelda Fitzgerald.The writings, dating from 1920-1976, include two typescript draft poems attributed to Fitzgerald by S. Donovan Swann, Jr.; a facsimile of an autograph draft of a promotional piece for This Side of Paradise,...
Dates:
1919 - 1976