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    "description": "<b>The basis for the Major Motion Picture&#160;<i>Genius</i>, Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, and Jude Law.<br><br>The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer-Prize winning author A. Scott Berg is now celebrating its 40th anniversary.</b><br><br>The talents he nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and numerous others. But Maxwell Perkins remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as editor but also as critic, career manager, moneylender, psychoanalyst, father-confessor, and friend.<br><br> This outstanding biography, a winner of the National Book Award, is the first to explore the fascinating life of this genius editor <i>extraordinare</i>&mdash;in both the professional and personal domains. It tells not only of Perkins&rsquo;s stormy marriage, endearing eccentricities, and secret twenty-five-year romance with Elizabeth Lemmon, but also of his intensely intimate relationships with the leading literary lights of the twentieth century. It is, in the words of <i>Newsweek</i>, &ldquo;an admirable biography of a wholly admirable man.&rdquo;",
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