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Suicide and Literary Biography: The Case of Hemingway
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 20, Number 4, Fall 1997
- pp. 405-436
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0143
- Article
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A writer's suicide confronts his or her biographers with special problems and opportunities. Drawing primarily on biographies of Ernest Hemingway for its examples, this article examines the narrative and rhetorical strategies often employed to present literary lives that end in suicide.