In reading of Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, I found one common denominator. Theireditor Maxwell Perkins. Perkins was an extraordinary individual. From 1914 until his death in 1947, Maxwell Perkins was employed as an editor for Charles Scribner’s and Sons. With his expertise, he guided his authors to greatness.

Perkins talent for cutting, shaping encouraging and suggesting passages in novels made him a friend…