Excellent, sympathetic account of a gentle man and excellent editor. One thing I've wondered since reading this book is if anyone has taken Thomas Wolfe's brain tumors into account regarding his rift with Perkins shortly before his death. It just seems bizarre that Wolfe would turn on Perkins the way he did. It seems to me his many brain tumors—along with his attempts to self-medicate by drinking heavily—were the culprits of his behavior. In other words, I don't think he was responsible for the bizarre behavior he exhibited when he got sick. He had so many brain tumors his cranial fluid shot across the room when the doctors opened his skull during surgery. That many tumors have got to affect a person's behavior. I wish someone was around to point that out to Perkins, given that he obviously felt a lot of pain over his falling out with Wolfe.