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...third best editor he had ever known, after George Horace Lorimer and Maxwell Perkins. William Faulkner, Rebecca West, Willa Cather and other major writers found him a staunch and generous companion. Marc Connelly and William Saroyan phoned him when they needed money. One of the few dissenters was Evelyn Waugh, who called him, with characteristic bile, "an emaciated Jew lately promoted within the Hearst organization from editing a weekly paper devoted to commercial chemistry...
...Waugh was miles off the mark. Even at 80, Herbert Mayes is still lithe, but he has never been emaciated, anatomically or creatively. And though he once edited Hearst's monthly American Druggist, he was, when Waugh wrote for him in the 1940s, one of the nation's most eminent magazine editors. By the time he retired in 1969, Mayes had guided the old Pictorial Review, as well as Town & Country, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and McCall...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers
NONFICTION: American Dreams: Lost and Found, Studs Terkel Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers
NONFICTION: Abroad, Paul Fussell American Dreams: Lost and Found, Studs Terkel ∙ Lyndon, Merle Miller Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers