“For me, Artists & Authors is a magnificent bouquet of colorful gems that will never fade.”

– Mary Costa, voice of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty

“The charming and illuminating essays collected here could have been penned by none other, ranging from the correspondence of ‘Dad’ (Charles Scribner Jr.) and ‘Papa’ (Hemingway), to conversations with the immortal soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, to the author’s involvement in an undercover operation to recover a stolen Rubens, and more. A life in good company, indeed.”

– Robert Erickson, The New Criterion

“The scion of a famous publishing family and a Princeton educated art historian, Charles Scribner III, provides a fascinating look at the lives and works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Caravaggio, Rubens, and Bernini. Along the way, he also provides shrewd commentary on biography as practiced by certain academics who reveal a profound ignorance about the way publishers and their authors interact, and on the academy itself, which, until fairly recently, has done little to foster a full understanding how writers’ lives are shaped by the business of publishing . . . The biographies of artists and authors have a way of melding together in Mr. Scribner’s ‘life in good company’.”

– Carl Rollyson, The New York Sun