Dear Scott/Dear Max: The F. Scott Fitzgerald - Maxwell Perkins Correspondence

John Kuehl · Jackson R. Bryer

Jun 2016 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

The collected letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his editor, Maxwell Perkins, illuminates their friendship as well as the collaborative and complex nature of the editor/author relationship.

About the author

Jackson R. Bryer is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, where he has primarily taught courses in twentieth-century American fiction, American drama, and modern drama, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, for four decades. Among the several books he has authored, edited, or co-edited are French Connections: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad, Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence, and Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. For eight years he contributed the chapter on Fitzgerald and Hemingway to American Literary Scholarship: An Annual. He served on the Board of Directors of the Ernest Hemingway Society/Foundation from 1992-94 and from 1997-2005. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the edition of Hemingway's complete correspondence.