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BYLINE: ERNEST HEMINGWAY edited by William White. 489 pages. Scribners...
...Ernest Hemingway is becoming the publishing business' posthumous answer to cottage industry. Three years after his suicide, A Moveable Feast arrived, literary leftovers served up by his widow, Mary. Now, after another three years, comes this 77-piece assembly of Papa's journalism, newspaper and magazine pieces edited by William White, professor of journalism at Wayne State University...
Although By-Line: Ernest Hemingway is really source material for Hemingway biographers and thesis hunters in the Eng. Lit. factories, the book does have intrinsic value for nonacademic readers. Hemingway told good yarns. His fishing and hunting stories made sea and forest seem God's heaven. And he had wise words for would-be writers: "Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." But always the book's main interest is the author. It traces the rise, the peaking out and the decline of Ernest Hemingway as stylist...
...Image. First there was the bright 20-year-old, freelancing formula features at $10 apiece to the Toronto Star Weekly. Next came Hemingway at 23, foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, filing color stories on the Greco-Turkish war and the Genoa Economic Conference, along with vignettes of trout fishing in Germany and the "king business" in Europe. Some of that early stuff was basic Hemingway: clear as glass. He attended a prestigious press conference given by Benito Mussolini. Il Duce "sat at his desk reading a book. His face was contorted into the famous frown. He was registering Dictator...
...1930s Hemingway was the celebrated author of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms; he had a tough and masculine image to live up to. He harpooned a 50-ft. sperm whale off the coast of Cuba, and he also clumsily managed to shoot him self through both calves with a .22 Colt automatic. He was doing his writing at Key West in those days, and "to discourage visitors while he is at work your correspondent has hired an aged Negro who appears to be the victim of an odd disease resembling leprosy who meets visitors...