While most people know names like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe, they might not know Max Perkins. The film "Genius" (opening June 17 in select San Diego theaters) sets out to ...

The legendary editor nurtured the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. But it was taming Thomas Wolfe's massive tomes that was perhaps his greatest... The Editor's Epic: Maxwell Perkins Makes For An ...

Editor Max Perkins’ former Windsor home is now the Snapdragon Inn. Courtesy photo/Nathan Larson Photography [A]fter a long day at the office, some people lose themselves in a good book. The late ...

Colin Firth plays famed New York literary editor Max Perkins, with Jude Law as his most challenging author, Thomas Wolfe, in theater director Michael Grandage's feature debut. By David Rooney Chief ...

The cast and creatives of Michael Grandage's directorial debut also noted how Laura Linney helped Jude Law with his American accent and why the film doesn't include female authors of the 1920s. By ...

Directed by Michael Grandage, Genius (out June 10) centers on the friendship and professional relationship between Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law), the esteemed and charismatic American author behind Look ...

Like so many people who love to read fiction, I have written a novel. It will never be published, because it isn't any good. But after reading A. Scott Berg's 1978 biography, "Max Perkins: Editor of ...

Of all the creative gifts, the ability to edit – that is, to edit text – is the least heralded and the least understood. Most people have never been edited, and those who benefit from it most tend to ...