Ernest Hemingway A Literary Life

Linda Wagner-Martin brings a wealth of new information to this detailed portrait of Hemingway's life and work, now available for the first time in paperback. Emphasising his immense love of animals, the sea and the natural world, the swiftly-told personal narrative gives a crucial insight into Hemingway's character, revealing him as a conflicted idealist caught between his need to write and his need to love. Wagner-Martin explores his friendships with women and the history of his four marriages, and builds up a vivid picture of Hemingway's century - not only the two world wars and the Spanish Civil War, but also the peaceful fishing in the Gulf waters, the African safaris, and the iconic Spanish bullfights. Linda Wagner-Martin'sErnest Hemingway: A Literary Lifefocusses on the author's marital relationships as one of the keys to his work.

LINDA WAGNER-MARTIN is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She writes widely on twentieth-century American literature, biography, women's writing and pedagogy. Her publications include A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway (2000), William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism (2002), Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life (1999/2003), Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (2004) and Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism (2009).

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
"'Fraid a Nothing"
Eighteen and Fear - and Agnes
"Dear Ernesto"
The Route to In Our Time: The Arrival
Of Babies and Books
Pauline Pfeiffer and Hadley Richardson Hemingway
Marriage in the Midst of Men Without Women
A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway as the Man in Charge
Esquire and Africa
Hemingway in the World
Martha Gellhorn and Spain
War in Europe and at Home
The Fourth Mrs Hemingway
From Cuba to Italy
Old Men, Prizes, and Reports of Hemingway's Death
Endings
Bibliography
Index