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Max Perkins was a literary editor of enduring fame and influence. He is best known for his work at Charles Scribner’s Sons, where he honed the careers of literary giants F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. He once wrote, “The job of editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.”
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"America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts."
