"Sophia Stewart poses a choice that many biographers struggle with: "what to do with the boring bits.""
"Morgan's subject, Margaret Anderson, was the first person to publish portions of James Joyce's Ulysses in the United States-and was convicted on obscenity charges as a result."
"A. Scott Berg begins his 1978 biography, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, by describing what Perkins, a legendary editor at Scribner, did for his authors: "He helped them structure their books, if help was needed; thought up titles, invented plots; he served as psychoanalyst, lovelorn advisor, marriage counselor, career manager, money-lender. Few editors before him had done so much work on manuscripts, yet he was always faithful""
Margaret Anderson published portions of James Joyce's Ulysses in the United States and was convicted on obscenity charges. She founded The Little Review in 1914 and served as an editor for fewer than ten years. Her post-editing years were described as lived "the way most people do, somewhat aimlessly." Critics argue that a biography emphasizing her later life over her editorial work fails to prove that her greatest work was the life she forged after leaving her career. Recent biographies have sought to anoint editors as "the unsung architects of the American literary canon." A tightly focused biography of Max Perkins illustrates the value of centering on editorial labor, showing editors structuring books, inventing plots, advising authors, and shaping manuscripts.
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