I gotta say I don't know how it happened but I have never heard of Maxwell Perkins and I was an english major. What in the world?! Has there ever been a greater eye for transcendent artistic talent of any kind?

Perkins discovered:

Hemmingway
Fitzgerald
Wolfe
Majorie Rawlings
James Jones
Alan Paton

I've been nerding out over this. Its like the whose who of that era of literature.