A fascinating story that is about the authors of Max Perkins as much as it is a biography of Perkins himself. I think the book would be of interest to anyone who enjoys biography, but it's also an important read for writers, editors, and students of writing and literature.

As for me, the nature of biography is to cover absurd amounts of information, and this biography's nature was especially complicated due to the fact that Perkins lived through his authors and so their stories must be told to elucidate his. I struggled with the chronology of the book, which unnecessarily exploded each chapter with dozens of characters of varying levels of consequence. Still, very interesting and often amusing.