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Both authors contributed distinctively to their public images. Decades past his prime, Hemingway could still glisten with the confidence of the writing world's heavyweight champion. Norman Mailer nailed the truth with brutal accuracy and a looping mixed metaphor when he boldly announced his own self-aggrandizing shot at the title in Advertisements for Myself'(1959). Hemingway, he wrote, "knew in advance, with a fine sense of timing, that he would have to campaign for himself, that the best tactic to hide the lockjaw of his shrinking genius was to become the personality of our time." Fitzgerald...
With friends like Hemingway, Fitzgerald did not need hostile critics. The most famous act of unkindness occurred in 1936, when Scott publicized his torment in "The Crack-Up," an article in Esquire. Later that year, Hemingway published The Snows of Kilimanjaro in the same magazine. The story contained a gratuitous reference to "poor Scott Fitzgerald" and that famous line from The Rich Boy, "The very rich are different from you and me." The reply is often assumed to have been Hemingway's: "Yes they have more money." At Fitzgerald's request, his name was deleted and "Julian" substituted...
...Scott and Ernest, "a documentary reconstruction of their friendship and estrangement," Matthew Bruccoli suggests it was Hemingway who had his nose pressed up against the glass. "I am getting to know the rich." Hemingway told Max Perkins and Critic Mary Colum at lunch. And it was Colum who replied, "The only difference between the rich and the other people is that the rich have more money." Making Fitzgerald the victim of this putdown, says Bruccoli, was one of several instances when Hemingway adjusted embarrassing truths to preserve his image...
...fact, says the author, Hemingway is the only source for some of the most widely repeated anecdotes about Fitzgerald. Many of them are contained in A Moveable Feast (1964). That posthumous volume begins with Hemingway's cryptic statement that though the book could be read as fiction, "there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact." Too many readers have confused light and facts. For example, in Moveable Feast, Hemingway gives the impression that Fitzgerald's literary advice was worthless, although a ten-page memo...
...beginning of their friendship, Fitzgerald was already successful and Hemingway an unknown living off his first wife Hadley's trust fund. Scott brought Hemingway's genius to the attention of Perkins, thus beginning a long and profitable association. Even after the friendship cooled, Fitzgerald continued to champion Hemingway's talent and write him concerned letters. Hemingway's correspondence has-yet to be fully published, though most of it was read by Carlos Baker for his fine biography Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. Portions of those letters quoted by Bruccoli indicate that though Hemingway could be sympathetic...