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by A. Scott Berg


  Harcourt, Alfred

  Harcourt, Brace

  Harper & Brothers

  Harry Morgan (Hemingway). See also To Have and Have Not

  Harvard Advocate

  Harvard Library Bulletin

  Harvard University

  Hayes, Rutherford B.

  Hecht, Ben

  Hemingway, Ernest

  accidents and illnesses of

  as anthologist

  anti-fascist speech of (1937)

  bullfighting and

  complaints to Perkins by

  critics and

  on death

  Eastman vs.

  financial situation of

  on fishing and hunting trips

  Fitzgerald and

  Gellhorn and. See Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn

  leftists and

  as literary hero and celebrity

  marriages of

  as masculinity cult spokesman

  obscenity and profanity in work of

  Perkins’s concern for safety of

  on Perkins’s death

  Perkins’s editorial judgments on

  on Perkins’s friendship

  Perkins’s initial contacts with

  Perkins’s personal views on

  Perkins’s relationship with

  as playwright

  self-estimations of

  short stories of

  Spanish Civil War and

  Stein and

  style of

  “the very rich” and

  Wolfe and

  on women writers

  World War II and

  on writers and writing

  writers recommended by. See also specific works

  Hemingway, Gregory

  Hemingway, Hadley

  Hemingway, John

  Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn

  Hemingway, Mary Welsh

  Hemingway, Patrick

  Hemingway, Pauline Pfeiffer

  Hepburn, Katharine

  Herbert, Victor

  Hergesheimer, Joseph

  “Her Last Case” (Fitzgerald)

  Hero in America, The (Wecter)

  Highet, Gilbert

  “His Father’s House” (Wolfe)

  History of Our Time (Ford)

  History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters, The (Pennell)

  Hope, Bob

  Hopkins, Harry L.

  Houghton Mifflin

  House, Eleanor

  Howells, William Dean

  How to Write Short Stories (Lardner)

  “In Another Country” (Hemingway)

  Indigo (Weston)

  Infidelity (film)

  In Our Time (Hemingway)

  I Thought of Daisy (Wilson)

  James, Henry

  James, Will

  James, William

  Jazz Age

  Jelliffe, Belinda

  Jones, James

  Jorgensen, Reid

  Josephson, Matthew

  Joyce, James

  Jozan, Edouard

  Keats, John

  Kenyon, Beatrice

  Key West, Fla., Hemingway in

  Kidnap Murder Case, The (Van Dine)

  “Killers, The” (Hemingway)

  King, Robert

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Kit Brandon (Anderson)

  Knave of Hearts, The (Louise Perkins)

  Knopf, Alfred A.

  Kroll, Frances

  Ladies’ Home Journal

  Lanahan, Samuel

  Lardner, Ellis

  Lardner, Ring (Ringgold Wilmer)

  death of

  health and money troubles of

  short pieces of

  Lardner, Ring, Jr.

  Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald)

  Fitzgerald’s death and

  Fitzgerald’s progress on

  idea and outline of

  Perkins’s views on

  publication and reception of

  selling of

  Wilson’s assessment of

  Late George Apley, The (Marquand)

  Lee, Robert E.

  Lee’s Lieutenants (Freeman)

  Lemmon, Elizabeth

  astrology and

  Fitzgerald and

  Perkins’s correspondence with

  Perkins’s relationship with

  Leslie, Shane

  Lewis, Sinclair

  libel

  Lieber, Maxim

  Life and the Dream (Colum)

  Life of Emerson, The (Brooks)

  Linet, Lewis R.

  Linscott, Robert

  “Lion at Morning, The” (Wolfe)

  Lippmann, Walter

  literary agents, women as

  Literary Guild

  Littauer, Kenneth

  “little magazines,”

  Liveright, Horace

  Lone Cowboy (James)

  Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

  Longworth, Nicholas

  Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe)

  acceptance of

  characters of

  cutting and revisions of

  massiveness of

  Perkins’s views on

  publication and reception of

  sale of ms. of

  title of

  “lost generation,”

  Lost Gospel, The (Train)

  Love Nest, The (Lardner)

  Loyalties (Galsworthy)

  Lunt, Storer

  Lycidas (Milton)

  McAlmon, Robert

  McClary, Tom

  McCormick, Kenneth D.

  McCoy, George W.

  McGee, William F.

  MacLeish, Archibald

  Macmillan

  Macrae, John

  Madame Bovary (Flaubert)

  Madison, Charles A.

  Magic Lanterns (Louise Perkins)

  Making of Americans, The (Stein)

  Malraux, André

  Man Nobody Knows, The (Barton)

  March of Democracy, The (Adams)

  Marquand, John Phillips

  “Mating of Marjorie, The” (Caldwell)

  “May Day” (Fitzgerald)

  Men at War (Hemingway, ed.)

  Mencken, H. L.

  Men Without Women (Hemingway)

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

  Meyer, Wallace

  Milton, John

  Minton-Balch

  Mitchell, Burroughs

  Mitchell, Cornelius

  Mitchell, Margaret

  Mizener, Arthur

  Modern Monthly

  Mok, Michael

  Moody, Helen Wills

  Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway)

  Mozart (Davenport)

  Mr. Pope and Other Poems (Tate)

  Murphy, Gerald and Sara

  “My Lost City” (Fitzgerald)

  Napoleon I,

  Nathan, George Jean

  Nathan, Robert

  New Canaan, Conn., Perkins’s home and circle in

  New Deal

  New Republic

  New Yorker, The

  New York Herald Tribune

  New York Post

  New York Times

  New York University—

  Nin, Anaïs

  1919 (Dos Passos)

  “No Door” (Wolfe)

  No More Parades (Ford)

  “No More Rivers” (Wolfe)

  Norton, W. W., and Company

  Nowell, Elizabeth

  “Now I Lay Me” (Hemingway)

  Noyes, Alfred

  Oakman, Walter G.

  Ober, Harold

  Ober, Mrs. Harold

  October Fair, The (Wolfe)

  Of Lena Geyer (Davenport)

  Of Making Many Books (Burlingame)

  Of Time and the River (Wolfe)

  characters of

  cutting and editing of

  dedication of

  early titles of

  as “finished,” Perkins decides

  lawsuit on sale of ms. of

  mistakes inr />
  Perkins’s views on

  publication and reception of

  sales of

  Wolfe’s progress with

  Wolfe’s refusal to part with

  Wolfe’s views on

  O‘Hara, John

  Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway)

  “Old Man Rivers” (Wolfe)

  One More River (Galsworthy)

  “On Girls and Gallantry” (Max Perkins)

  Ordeal of Mark Twain, The (Brooks)

  “Other Joys” (Louise Perkins)

  “Other Side, The” (Lardner)

  Our Times (Sullivan)

  Owen, George

  Page, Thomas Nelson

  Palffy, Countess Eleanor

  Paris, literary expatriates in

  Paris Underground (Shiber)

  Parker, Dorothy

  Parrish, Maxfield

  Paton, Alan

  Pauline (Louise Perkins)

  Peirce, Waldo

  Penhally (Gordon)

  Pennell, Joseph Stanley

  Perkins, Bertha (daughter; Mrs. John Frothingham)

  Perkins, Charles C. (brother)

  Perkins, Charles Callahan (grandfather)

  Perkins, Edmund

  Perkins, Edward (brother)

  Perkins, Edward Clifford (father)

  Perkins, Elisabeth “Zippy” (daughter; Mrs. Douglas Gorsline)

  Perkins, Elizabeth Evarts (mother)

  Perkins, Fanny (sister). See Cox, Fanny Perkins

  Perkins, Jane (daughter; Mrs. George Owen)

  Perkins, Louise Elvire “Peggy” (daughter; Mrs. Robert King)

  Perkins, Louise Saunders (wife)

  artistic career of

  as Catholic convert

  Elizabeth Lemmon and

  European tour of (1935)

  illnesses of

  inheritance of

  Max’s death and

  wedding and honeymoon of

  widowhood and death of

  Wolfe and

  Perkins, Max (William Maxwell Evarts)

  America as seen by

  authors’ solicitude for

  autobiographical fiction as preference of

  as biographical subject

  in business dealings

  childhood and early youth of

  courtship and wedding of

  daughters and

  death of

  death of friends as felt by

  descriptions of

  as doodler

  as drinker

  Eastman-Hemingway encounter and

  eating habits of

  editorial crotchets and biases of

  editorial perfectionism lost by

  editor’s role as seen by

  empathy for authors’ problems shown by

  family background of

  fatalism of

  on fishing and hunting trips with Hemingway

  Fitzgerald’s death and

  friendships vs. business dealings of

  at Harvard

  hat-wearing and apparel of

  health decline of—439

  hearing problems of

  as Hemingway-Fitzgerald moderator

  hired by Scribner

  ideas suggested to authors by

  as “John Smith, U.S.A.,”

  as joiner

  lawsuits and—315, 318, 422—423, 427

  in London

  in love relationship. See Lemmon, Elizabeth

  managerial role of

  marriage of

  middle-age eccentricities of

  misspellings of

  money management by

  at New York Times

  obscenity, profanity and

  parental philosophy of

  politics of

  on publishing economics

  publishing gambles of

  reputation among writers

  reputation at Scribners

  retirement dreams of

  sadness and loneliness of

  Scribner colleagues and

  short stories as arranged by

  social withdrawal of

  in Stein-Hemingway feud

  success of authors ascribed to

  as teacher

  on titles

  typical workdays of

  War and Peace and

  Wolfe’s death and

  as Wolfe’s Foxhall Edwards (“the Fox”)

  on women and marriage

  women attracted to

  women writers and

  work attitudes of

  World War II and

  writing of forties as seen by

  writing vs. editorial career of

  Yankee and Puritanical qualities of. See also specific authors and titles

  Perkins, Nancy Galt (daughter; Mrs. Reid Jorgensen)

  Petronius Arbiter

  Philippe, Count of Darkness (Fitzgerald)

  Pierce, John B.

  Pilgrimage of Henry James, The (Brooks)

  Pirandello, Luigi

  “Poodle” (Lardner)

  Poore, Charles

  Pope, Edith

  “Portrait of Bascom Hawke, A” (Wolfe)

  Pound, Ezra

  Powell, Dawn

  Prince, Marjorie Morton

  Princeton University

  Prodigal Women, The (Hale)

  Prohibition (Volstead Act)

  publishing

  advertising in

  best sellers in

  editor’s job in

  effect of Depression on

  effect of World War II on

  markets in

  out-of-print books in

  payment procedures in

  printing plates in

  seasons in

  trade books in

  women in

  Pulitzer Prize

  Putnam, Phelps

  Putnam’s, G. P.

  Puzzled America (Anderson)

  Pyle, Ernie

  Randall, David

  Rascoe, Burton

  Rawlings, Charles

  Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

  Fitzgerald and

  Hemingway and

  Perkins’s role in Yearling of

  Reback, Janet. See Caldwell, Taylor

  Remarque, Erich Maria

  “Return to Yesterday” (Ford)

  Rice, Elmer

  “Rich Boy, The” (Fitzgerald)

  Roberts, Margaret

  Robertson, George

  Rolland, Romain

  Romantic Egotirt, The (Fitzgerald)

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Ross, Cary

  Roth, Henry

  “Rough Crossing, The” (Fitzgerald)—

  Round Up (Lardner)

  Ruge, Dr. E. C.

  Russell, Diarmuid

  Russell, George William (A. E.)

  Ryan, Robert

  Salvation Nell (Sheldon)

  Sanctuary (Faulkner)

  Saturday Evening Post

  Saturday Review

  Satyricon (Petronius)

  Saunders, Emily

  Saunders, Jean

  Saunders, Louise. See Perkins, Louise Saunders

  Saunders, William Lawrence

  Saunders, William Lawrence

  Save Me the Waltz (Zelda Fitzgerald)

  Saxton, Eugene F.

  Scenes and Portraits (Brooks)

  Scheying, Herman

  Schieffelin, George McKay

  Scribner, Arthur

  Scribner, Charles(“old CS”)

  death of

  Fitzgerald and

  Hemingway and

  Perkins’s relationship with

  Scribner, Charles

  Perkins’s relationship with

  Scribner, Charles

  Scribner bookstore

  Scribner Building

  Scribner’s Magaxine

  Perkins’s improvement of

  works serialized in

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bsp; Scribner’s Sons, Charles (Scribners)

  Anderson’s dissatisfaction with

  Depression earnings of

  editorial expansion at

  editors of

  Fitzgerald’s debts to

  Fitzgerald’s rumored rift with

  gambles by

  Hemingway’s disputes with

  Hemingway’s loyalty to

  Hemingway sought by

  hundredth anniversary of (1946)

  literary list of

  literary standards and reputation of

  obscenity and

  offices of, described

  Perkins’s death and

  Perkins’s managerial role at

  Perkins’s reputation at

  poetry and

  record-breaking 1943 season of

  rejections by

  Wilson’s resentment of

  Wolfe’s characters drawn from

  Wolfe’s departure from

  Wolfe’s disputes with

  Wolfe’s loyalty to

  Seldes, Gilbert

  Shakespeare, William

  Shawn, William

  Shearer, Norma

  Sheldon, Edward

  Sherman, Roger

  Sherwood, Robert

  Shiber, Etta

  Shipman, Evan

  Shores of Light, The (Wilson)

  Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello)

  Smart Set, The

  Smith, Bernard

  Smith, Chard Powers

  Smith, Harrison

  Smoky (James)

  “Snows of Kilimanjaro, The” (Hemingway)

  So Red the Rose (Young)

  South Moon Under (Rawlings)

  Spain, Hemingway and

  Spencer, Herbert

  Stallings, Laurence

  Stearns, Harold

  Stein, Gertrude

  Steinbeck, John

  Stewart, Catherine Pomeroy

  Stewart, Donald Ogden

  Story of a Novel, The (Wolfe)

  De Voto’s article on

  royalty dispute over

  Story of a Wonder Man, The (Lardner)

  Story of Mankind, The (van Loon)

  Story Teller’s Story, A (Anderson)

  Strange, Michael

  Strange Fugitive (Callaghan)

  Strater, Henry

  Sullivan, Mark

  Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway)

  epigraph of

  Perkins on revisions of

  publication and reception of

  Sun Valley, Idaho, Hemingway in

  Swift, Jonathan

  Swinnerton, Frank

  Taft, William Howard

  Tales of the Jazz Age (Fitzgerald)

  Taps at Reveille (Fitzgerald)

  Tarkington, Booth

  Tate, Allen

  Tate, Caroline Gordon

  Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald)

  autobiographical sources of

  early and final titles of

  Fitzgerald’s promotional plans for

  Fitzgerald’s views on

  Hemingway’s views on

  Perkins’s views on

  problems in completing of

  publication and reception of

  serialization of

 

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