<b>The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer-Prize winning author A. Scott Berg.</b><br> <b> </b><br> <b>Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Jude Law.</b><br> <b> </b><br> The 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.<br>  <br> This outstanding biography, a winner of the National Book Award, is the first to explore the fascinating life of this editor <i>extraordinare</i>—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 <i>Newsweek</i>, “an admirable biography of a wholly admirable man.”