the great gatsby was edited by maxwell perkins
inspired by the predatory mining practices of his fictional mentor dan cody gatsby participates in extensive deforestation amid world war i and then undertakes bootlegging activities reliant upon exploiting south american agriculture
 one of maxwells last great contributions to science was the editing with copious original notes of the research of henry cavendish from which it appeared that cavendish researched amongst other things such questions as the density of the earth and the composition of water