Ernest Hemingway: The Writer in Context

by James Nagel (Editor), John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library

TABLE OF * Introduction by James Nagel -- 1.) Publishing Hemingway by Charles Scribner, Jr. -- 2.) Islands in the a son remembers by Patrick Hemingway -- 3.) Reflections on Ernest Hemingway by Tom Stoppard -- 4.) The making of Death in the afternoon by Robert W. Lewis -- 5.) The tenth Indian and The thing left out by Paul Smith -- 6.) Grace under Hemingway and the summer of 1920 by Max Westbrook -- 7.) A farewell to pseudo autobiography and personal metaphor by Millicent Bell -- 8.) Women and the loss of Eden in Hemingway's mythology by Carol H. Smith -- 9.) The exchange between Faulkner's influence on The old man and the sea by Peter L. Hays -- 10.) Ernest and Hemingway's lover's quarrel with James by Adeline R. Tintner -- 11.) Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin -- 12.) Invention from the Hemingway-Cowley correspondence by James D. Brasch -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . Our appreciation of Ernest Hemingway's life and art is enhanced by this new collection of twelve essays. There is much fresh information several of the pieces are based on previously unpublished manuscripts and letters from the Kennedy Library and various private collections, while others offer intimate impressions of the author by key literary figures who were involved with him personally and professionally. For all students and scholars of twentieth century American literature, this lively and valuable collection of original material will be essential reading.

246 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1984