Title: Letters of a Bygone Age
Review: The letters of Max Perkins and Marjorie Rawlings reveal Perkins genius as an editor more than anygenius of Rawlings as an author. Perkins always knew what to say and when to say it. Rawlings didn't.She did have a topic, however, that was great interest to Perkins, the poverty stricken people of theFlorida scrub. After guiding Rawlings in her vastly underrated and largely forgotten first novel, SOUTHMOON UNDER, Perkins continually urged her to write what would become THE YEARLING. It was his idea towrite a Huck Finn novel out of the scrub, and eventually Rawlings agreed. Still, it was her giftednesswith language that made THE YEARLING both the cultural phenomena that it was.
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