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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. William Maxwell
Evarts Perkins (September 20, 1884 - June 17, 1947), was the editor for
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. He has been
described as the most famous literary editor. Although his reputation as
an editor is most closely linked to these three, Perkins worked with
many other writers. He was the first to publish J. P. Marquand and
Erskine Caldwell. His advice was responsible for the enormous success of
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, whose The Yearling (1938) grew out of
suggestions made by Perkins. It became a runaway best-seller and won the
Pulitzer Prize. Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country (1946) was another
highly successful Perkins find. His last discovery was James Jones, who
approached Perkins in 1945. Perkins persuaded Jones to abandon the novel
he was working on at that time and launched him on what would become
From Here to Eternity (1951).
