BOOKS
Bowman, Rex and Carlos Santos.
Almost Hemingway: The Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign Correspondent. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2021. [Biography of the once celebrated journalist, best-selling author, and world adventurer who may have
out-Hemingwayed Hemingway. A contemporary of EH, Farson was known for his daring pursuit of frontline stories, including covering the London Blitz, meeting with Hitler, and breaking the story of Gandhi's 1930 arrest. Bowman and Santos note striking parallels in the authors' lives as men of action, such as their participation in two world wars and shared love of fishing, hunting, women, and alcohol. Though the two never met, EH owned two copies of Farson's
Going Fishing (1942). Speculates on why EH's writing has stood the test of time while Farson's has faded into history. Scattered references to EH throughout. Draws on biographies, memoirs, letters, and other resources. Includes index.]
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Christian, Timothy.
Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway. New York: Pegasus Books, 2022. [Tapping previously unaccessed sources, this biography offers a more fully rounded view of EH's fourth wife than previously available. By necessity it also offers the familiar territory of EH's life but presents Mary Welsh Hemingway as a complex figure in a courtship and a marriage fraught with emotional and occasionally physical peril. Christian follows Welsh through her husband's decline, suicide, and the literary and personal dramas that followed, including frank accounts of her own struggle with alcohol in the years before her death. Preface by the late H.R. Stoneback reflects on the veteran Hemingway scholar's long friendship with Mary Hemingway.]
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Theising, Andrew J.
Hemingway's Saint Louis: How St. Louisans Shaped His Life and Legacy. Edwardsville, IL: Initiative for Urban Research (2020). [Biography of EH's time in St. Louis and the people (including three wives) and experiences there that influenced his life and writing. Explores EH's connections to four families (i.e., the Smiths, the Richardsons, the Pfeiffers, and the Gellhorns) and closes with a survey of biographies by A.E. Hotchner (another St. Louisan), Carlos Baker, Michael Reynolds, and many others. Features endnotes, index, and over thirty-five black-and-white photographs.]
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Tucan, Gabriela.
A Cognitive Approach to Ernest Hemingway's Short Fiction. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars P, 2021. [Study of the reader's mental processes for thinking through and making sense of EH's spare prose to get at what lies beneath the surface. Tucan draws on cognitive poetics and narratology in her examination of the reader's intense imaginative negotiation with laconic Hemingway narrators, thus enabling the reader to comprehend the emotional suggestiveness of objective detail. Focuses on stories dealing with the concept of journey, including "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Fathers and Sons," "A Canary for One," "Hills Like White Elephants," along with several from
IOT. Provides an overview of cognitive science and its contributing disciplines, such as psychology, philosophy, and linguistics. Features a bibliography but no index. Earlier versions of some chapters published previously as articles.]
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