Bertha Perkins Frothingham,
Editor & Vermont Resident

Maxwell Perkins, distinguished editor for such important 20th-century novelists as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, and Marjorie Rawlings, spent his boyhood summers on his grandfather's estate in Windsor, Vermont. When he acquired a family himself, he made sure that his five daughters spent their summers in Windsor too and learned to love it as he did. In the course of his business career, he wrote thousands of letters, many of which have been collected in the books Editor to Author, Dear Scott Dear Max, The Only Thing That Counts, and, just recently, his entire correspondence over 17 years with Marjorie Rawlings in the book Max and Marjorie.

Readers will find the letters, which were written between 1915 and 1929, always entertaining, often instructional, sometimes whimsical. Those familiar with the professional correspondence of Maxwell Perkins (which can be found in such books as The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway - Maxwell Perkins Correspondences, Dear Scott Dear Max: The Fitzgerald - Perkins Correspondence, and the recently published Max & Marjorie: The Correspondence of Maxwell Perkins and Marjorie Rawlings) may be surprised and delighted by Maxwell Perkins' warm endearing prose and his talents as a pen and ink artist.