To loot my life clean
Subtitle: the Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins correspondence
By: edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Park Bucker.
Contributors: Perkins, Maxwell E. 1884-1947.; Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph, 1931-; Bucker, Park.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Correspondence; Perkins, Maxwell E. 1884-1947 -- Correspondence; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence; Book editors -- United States -- Correspondence; Editors -- United States -- Correspondence
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: "The relationship between Thomas Wolfe and his legendary editor, Maxwell Perkins, has been the subject of guesswork and anecdote for seventy years. Beginning with the 1929 publication of Look Homeward, Angel, literary scholars have debated the writer's dependence on his editor and the degree to which Perkins participated in Wolfe's work. Now, with this volume of 251 letters between Wolfe and the House of Scribner (two-thirds of which have never been published), the mythologized friendship between the author and the editor is clarified, and the record can be set straight."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]) and index.