# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maxwell-perkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:22:51.374Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maxwell-perkins"
name: "Maxwell Perkins"
slug: "maxwell-perkins"
description: "William Maxwell Evarts \"Max\" Perkins was an American book editor, best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Thomas Wolfe."
tagline: "American literary editor (1884–1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maxwell_Perkins_NYWTS_detail.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1884-09-20"
deathDate: "1947-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump