max perkins was a book editor at charles scribner sons. he worked in their his entire career really. i began to see in this correspondence between fitzgerald and perkins the creation of f scott fitzgerald the artist because it was to perkins that f. scott fitzgerald, a princeton dropped out my father reminded me, that this man who wrote his first novel, what became this side of paradise, send it first to max perkins at scribner is to send him back the series of letters telling him how to improve the novel and maybe then perkins could get his company, then the stuffy is publishing house in america, to published the book and this over a series of year-and-a-half, fitzgerald did until "this side of paradise" was published, became an overnight sensation, became one of the landmark books in american publishing in the 20th century. as a result of that two things happened that i could read in this correspondence between an author and his editor. the first thing i saw was how perkins stuck with fitzgerald for the rest of his writing life and became

max perkins was a book editor at charles scribner sons. e worked in their his entire career really. i began to see in this correspondence between fitzgerald and perkins the creation of f scott fitzgerald the artist because it was to perkins that f. scott fitzgerald, a princeton dropped out my father reminded me, that this man who wrote his first novel, what became this side of paradise, send it first to max perkins at scribner is to send him back the series of letters telling him how to improve the novel and maybe then perkins could get his company, then the stuffy is publishing house in america, to published the book and this over a series of year-and-a-half, fitzgerald did until "this side of paradise" was published, became an overnight sensation, became one of the landmark books in american publishing in the 20th century. as a result of that two things happened that i could read in this correspondence between an author and his editor. the first thing i saw was how perkins stuck with fitzgerald for the rest of his writing life and became