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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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Fascinating Fact: Gen. George Smith Patton was the grandfather of George Smith Patton III, the famous army commander of World War II. George and one of his two brothers would be killed in battle before the end of the Civil War.
