Further Reading
- Biography, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978), written by A. Scott Berg. Perkins' editorial papers are in the Charles Scribner's Sons collection at Princeton University.
- Profile by Malcolm Cowley, "Unshaken Friend," New Yorker (April 1 and 8, 1944).
- Hemingway, Ernest, and Carlos Baker. Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters, 1917-1961. This book provides insight into Perkins' life through the eyes of one of literature's most beloved authors, Ernest Hemingway.
- Perkins' correspondence with F. Scott Fitzgerald is collected in Dear Scott, Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence, ed. John Kuehl and Jackson Bryer (1991). A similar book regarding Perkins' relationship with Hemingway is The Only Thing That Counts, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Robert W. Trogdon.
- A third book of Perkins' letters is also in print: Editor to Author: The Letters of Maxwell E. Perkins, edited by John Hall Whelock.
- Father to Daughter: The Family Letters of Maxwell Perkins is a collection of letters written by Perkins to his wife and five daughters, collected and edited by his grand daughters. Andrews Mcmeel Pub (October 1995)
- As Ever Yours: The Letters of Max Perkins and Elizabeth Lemmon, edited by Rodger L. Tarr
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