Robert W. Trogdon

The business of making an American literary icon The Lousy Racket is a thorough examination of Ernest Hemingway's working relationship with his American publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, and with his editors there: Maxwell Perkins, Wallace Meyer, and Charles Scribner III. This first critical study of Hemingway's professional collaboration with Scribners also details the editing, promotion, and sales of the books he published with the firm from 1926 to 1952 and provides a fascinating look into the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century. This painstakingly researched study reveals the working relationship between Hemingway and his editors, with special emphasis on the friendship that developed between Hemingway and the dean of American book editors, Maxwell Perkins. Drawing on many unpublished resources, including correspondence between Hemingway and his editors and others in the firm, as well as printing, advertising records, and sales dummies, Robert W. Trogdon shows how Hemingway's public reputation was shaped in large part by Scribners. Hemingway scholars will appreciate this contribution to Hemingway studies, and The Lousy Racket is an important contribution to studies in the modernist era in American literature and to book history.

Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature

The Lousy Racket

Discusses the life and writings of Ernest Hemingway, a commercially and critically 20th century American writer, perhaps best known for his novels and terse writing style. Includes reviews of his work and evaluates his influence.

A Documentary Volume

Ernest Hemingway

Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

Layman

Concentrates on major figures of a particular literary period, movement or genre.

Paris in the Twenties

American Expatriate Writers

Maxwell Evarts Perkins

Twenty-two years of correspondence between Ernest Hemingway and his editor, Maxwell Perkins, are covered in a volume that chronicles Hemingway's development from promising young writer to famous novelist and the steadfast loyalty of an expert editor.

The Ernest Hemingway/Maxwell Perkins Correspondence, 1925-1947

The Only Thing that Counts

An well-illustrated reference to the American writer who revolutionized the language covers the Hemingway basics--war, boxing, bullfights, fishing, art, and women--while offering a few new insights on the great author. Reprint.

Robert W. Trogdon

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