Sublime

valedictory

railed as he

More a friend to his authors than a taskmaster, he aided them in every way. He helped them structure their books, if help was needed; thought up titles, invented plots; he served as psychoanalyst, lovelorn adviser, marriage counselor, career manager, money-lender. Few editors before him had done so much work on manuscripts, yet he was always

“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”

peer recognition