The Last Romantic: A Poet Among Publishers : The Oral Autobiography of John Hall Wheelock - Hardcover

Wheelock, John Hall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157003463X ISBN 13: 9781570034633

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2002

Synopsis

During the 46 years that John Hall Wheelock (1886-1978) - an influential literary figure and respected poet - worked at Charles Scribner's Sons, the company distinguished itself as the leading literary publishing house in America. During this golden era, Scribners included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Jones, Alan Paton, George Santayana and Thomas Wolfe among its authors. As the editor who assisted and then succeeded the legendary Maxwell Perkins as editor in chief, Wheelock worked with some of the nation's most acclaimed - yet difficult - authors.

About this title

About the Author:

MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI, the Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is the leading authority on the House of Scribner and its authors. He is the author of Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the editorial director of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. He lives in Columbia.

JUDITH BAUGHMAN is the author of Literary Masters: F. Scott Fitzgerald. She lives in Elgin, South Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 157003463X
• ISBN 13: 9781570034633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Bruccoli Matthew J., Baughman Judith S.