Acknowledgments

With this issue, The Hemingway Review completes its first quarter-century of life as a scholarly journal. It seems an especially appropriate time to acknowledge two other milestones—to thank two remarkable people who are leaving us, and to welcome their successors.

I'd like to begin by thanking Dr. Albert J. DeFazio III for seventeen years of service to Hemingway scholarship as our bibliographer. Bibliographers are the unsung heroes of scholarship—doing half of our research for us, making it easy for other scholars to find our publications. Since the autumn of 1988, Al has composed a biannual bibliography of Hemingway items including scholarly and popular books and articles. From his days as a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia, through becoming a husband to Lynne and a father to Katherine and John, through his work as both a dedicated high school teacher and a professor at George Mason University, and while writing his own excellent book on The Sun Also Rises and editing an anthology of the Hemingway-Hotchner correspondence (reviewed in this issue), Al has produced our bibliography twice a year without ever once being late. Now he is moving on to become the editor of the Hemingway Society's Newsletter. I'll miss working with Al on the Review, but am glad he'll continue to be a close colleague. Al—on behalf of all of our members and subscribers—heartfelt thanks for taking such good care of us for so many years.

And so we welcome our new bibliographer, Kelli A. Larson, whose first bibliography for The Hemingway Review appears in this issue. Kelli has a Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University. She is now Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, as well as the author of many articles on American literature and two books, Ernest Hemingway: A Reference Guide (G. K. Hall, 1990) and A Guide to the Poetry of William Carlos Williams (G. K. Hall, 1995). In addition to her well-known reference guide, her work on Hemingway includes bibliographical essays in Linda Wagner's A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway as well as in two forthcoming anthologies, Bickford Sylvester and Larry Grimes's Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban Fiction and Miriam Mandel's Hemingway and Africa. We're enormously grateful to Kelli for accepting the post and delighted to have her on the team.

This issue marks another milestone as well, the departure of Mary Schierman, who for six years has managed our library subscriptions, order fulfillment, and finances for the University of Idaho. Mary, who began working on The Hemingway Review during her tenure as office manager of the University of Idaho Press, and who has a professional background in subscription management, has been a godsend to the journal. For six years, Mary has groomed and developed our subscription lists, supervised our mailings, filled customer requests and claims, stayed on top of our budget, paid the bills, and charted us through difficult waters—including the collapse of the Faxon subscription agency, the shift of many libraries from paper subscriptions to electronic databases, and a major move to our new home in the English department. There have been days, I'm sure, when the journal has owed its very survival to Mary. Even when full-time employment called her elsewhere, she made sure The Hemingway Review kept running smoothly. Her calmness and confidence have been a wonderful gift—our warmest thanks go to Mary.

Deborah J. Allen will be stepping up to care for library subscriptions, order fulfillment, and finances. A financial technician with the University of Idaho's Department of English, Deb brings years of experience and glowing recommendations to the position. I'm very grateful to her for taking on the job, which will be in addition to her many, many other duties in the department.

I'd also like to take a moment to thank the many scholars who volunteer their time to read and evaluate manuscripts for The Hemingway Review and to write constructive comments for our prospective authors. They bring a world of expertise and a great diversity of opinion to our journal...