Hemingway offered to modify the noun with “lousy” or “lesbian,” but if anyone was ever a bitch, he said it was Gertrude Stein.

Before the afternoon ended, Max also heard from Thomas Wolfe’s lawyer.

Marcia Davenport was in Prague finishing East Side, West Side, which she dedicated to Perkins.

Hemingway had disliked Zelda since their first meeting in Paris, when he gazed into her “hawk’s eyes” and saw a rapacious spirit. He estimated that 90 percent of Scott’s problems were her fault,

Ernest Hemingway thought the “Crack-Up” pieces were “miserable.” People experienced emptiness many

one of his best-selling authors, Willard Huntington Wright, better known to hundreds of thousands of readers as S. S. Van Dine.

“A publisher is a man who is blamed if a book fails and ignored if it proves a success.”

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“Everything Max does is directed toward the whole effect of the book.... He believes in your characters; they become completely real to him.... He can take a mess of chaos, give you the scaffold, and then you build a house on it....