Volume 6, Number 7 · April 28, 1966
Poor Papa
By John Thompson
Papa Hemingway
by A.E. Hotchner
Random House, 304 pp., $5.95
In his lifetime, Ernest Hemingway's early and enormous fame became confused with his writing, and in his own mind as well as in the minds of his critics his fame somehow seemed to make his writing go bad. At the time of his death, in 1961, he was probably the best-known writer in the world, and one of the most popular. But his writing no longer exerted an influence on literature, and serious critics usually disposed of his work as being of minor interest compared to that of writers like Fitzgerald and Faulkner, whom he had once completely overshadowed.
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