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Hemingway on Hemingway

• HEMINGWAY ON LEARNING TO WRITE
• HEMINGWAY’S ADVICE ON WRITING
• HEMINGWAY ON THE PROFESSION OF WRITING
• OBITUARIES AND TRIBUTES

Like many of his contemporaries (William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence), Ernest Hemingway was unusually aware that an author must also be his own best publicist. Or, as Wallace Stevens suggested, the artist not only must perform upon the stage, he first must build the stage that would contain and explain the artist’s performance. Beginning with his earliest journalism, feature stories that included himself in some way, Hemingway began constructing that focusing stage until gradually in the public mind he replaced the man himself with the public performer.

The earliest of Hemingway’s journalism written for the Oak Park and River Forest High School newspaper,...

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1. Introduction
2. Biography
3. Chronology Of Events In Ernest Hemingway’s Life
4. About Ernest Hemingway
5. Hemingway at Work
6. Hemingway’s Eras
7. Hemingway’s Works
8. Hemingway on Hemingway
9. Hemingway as Studied
10. Frequently Asked Questions About Ernest Hemingway
11. Bibliography
12. Copyright

1. Ernest Hemingway
2. American Literature