Hemingway -- a good profile

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Those of you who hate old Ernest, just press the DELETE key now.

In connection with Hemingway's most recent posthumous book, The New York
Times Online has an online-only essay by Hemingway biographer Michael
Reynolds, who has written one of the finer series of Hemingway biographies,
which are divided chronologically.

The essay is at:

	http://www.nytimes.com/books/yr/mo/day/specials/hemingway-reynolds.html

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As the text says, in part:

	His rise from promising unknown writer to world-renowned
	figure was charted with clarion accuracy by The New York
	Times, in whose pages Hemingway's life and art were regular
	features. Here on the Web, The Times has assembled the most
	important of those stories, making immediate what once took
	days toiling in libraries to locate, find on microfilm and print.
	Reading through these reviews and news stories, one not only
	learns a good deal about Ernest Hemingway, but also will take
	in a short cultural history of America in this century.

It's quite a good essay, lively and amusing.  The author's books are really
splendid; they take Hemingway's life and divide it into periods, and then
cover each period in the kind of detail that makes the subject leap to life.

--tim o'connor

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