Author: John Perkins Cushing
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Author: Maxwell Evarts Perkins
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271022543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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First time publications of letters from 25-year correspondence between famed Charles Scribner's Sons editor Max Perkins and Virginia socialite Elizabeth Lemmon.

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Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271047313
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Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Peppermint Perkins
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Love letter, 1836 Mach 21, John [?] to Elizabeth Dunklin [4 p. 22 cm. holograph signed. photocopy (negative)]--Letter, 1862? Aug. 20, J.M. Pierce to his mother Mrs. A.E. Pierce, concerning personal news. [4 p. 19 cm. holograph signd. photocopy (negative)].

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher: Studies in American Literary R
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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"The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman makes accessible the many intricate narratives created by Gilman's correspondences. The editors have grouped the letters according to the significant events in Gilman's life and the important people to whom she wrote, including her friends and family members."--Inside jacket.

Author: A. Scott Berg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147113010X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 796

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The talents Maxwell Perkins nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe among numerous others. But the man himself remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as editor but as critic, career manager, moneylender, psychoanalyst, confessor and friend. This outstanding biography, a winner of the National Book Award, is the first to explore the fascinating life of this editor extraordinaire in both professional and personal domains. It tells not only of Perkins' stormy marriage 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.

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743246896
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 983

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The death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 ended one of the most original and influential careers in American literature. His works have been translated into every major language, and the Nobel Prize awarded to him in 1954 recognized his impact on contemporary writing. While many people are familiar with the public image of Hemingway and the legendary accounts of his life, few knew him as an intimate. With this collection of letters, presented for the first time as a Scribner Classic, a new Hemingway emerges. Ranging from 1917 to 1961, this generous selection of nearly six hundred letters is, in effect, both a self-portrait and an autobiography. In his own words, Hemingway candidly reveals himself to a wide variety of people: family, friends, enemies, editors, translators, and almost all the prominent writers of his day. In so doing he proves to be one of the most entertaining letter writers of all time. Carlos Baker has chosen letters that not only represent major turning points in Hemingway's career but also exhibit character, wit, and the writer's typical enthusiasm for hunting, fishing, drinking, and eating. A few are ingratiating, some downright truculent. Others present his views on writing and reading, criticize books by friend or foe, and discuss women, soldiers, politicians, and prizefighters. Perhaps more than anything, these letters show Hemingway's irrepressible humor, given far freer rein in his correspondence than in his books. An informal biography in letters, the product of forty-five years' living and writing, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters leaves an indelible impression of an extraordinary man. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899. At seventeen he left home to join the Kansas City Star as a reporter, then volunteered to serve in the Red Cross during World War I. He was severely wounded at the Italian front and was awarded the Croce di Guerra. He moved to Paris in 1921, where he devoted himself to writing fiction, and where he fell in with the expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford. His novels include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), To Have and Have Not (1937), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.

Author: Elizabeth Perkins Garner
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Author: Thomas Greaves Cary
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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