Ernest Hemingway

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<p><i>Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life</i> includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous publications:<i>A Moveable Feast,</i> 1964 (and the 2009<i>A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition)</i>;<i>Islands in the Stream</i>, 1970; and<i>The Garden</i><i>of Eden,</i> 1986. Linda Wagner-Martin provides background and intertextual readingsparticularly of the way Hemingways unpublished stories (Phillip Haines was a writer) and his fiction from<i>Men Without Women</i> and<i>Winner Take Nothing</i> interface with the memoir. The revised edition also highlights and provides background on Hemingways treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein, his life in Paris in the 1920s, and his connection to the poetry scene thereputting this in conversation with Mary Hemingways edits of<i>A Moveable Feast</i>. The new chapters also illuminate the reception of<i>Islands in the Stream</i> and a new way of understanding the role of gender and androgyny in<i>The Garden of Eden</i>. On a whole, the book draws from extensive archival research, particularly correspondence of all four of Hemingways wives.</p>

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<p><b>Linda Wagner-Martin</b> is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emerita at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA. She has written and edited more than eighty books, has won a number of teaching awards, and such grants as the Guggenheim, the Senior National Endowment for the Humanities, ACLS, Ford, and Rockefeller¿and been a fellow at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and the Radcliffe Institute. She was awarded the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Service to American Literature.<b> </b>In the Palgrave Macmillan Literary Lives series, she has published works on Emily Dickinson (2013), Sylvia Plath (2003), Toni Morrison (second edition, 2022), John Steinbeck (2017), and Walt Whitman (2021).<i></i></p> <p></p>

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