SIGNED A Profile of Maxwell Perkins by Malcolm Cowley Limited/Numbered

Malcolm Cowley, a well-known literary historian, insists that the publication of “Unshaken Friend” in a 1944 edition of The New Yorker did not create the Perkins legend. Cowley stated, “This modest and scrupulous Yankee never wrote a book himself, but he did vastly more than others to create an atmosphere in which good writing flourished.”.