Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life

by L. Wagner-Martin

Overview

Linda Wagner-Martin brings a wealth of new information to this detailed portrait of Hemingway and his world, concentrating particularly on his friendships with women and the history of his four marriages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230276963
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/28/2007
Series:	Literary Lives
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	201
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a Rockefeller awardee, and a resident at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and the Bunting Institute. She recently received the Hubbell Medal for lifetime service to American literature. Her 2013 A History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present is her 53rd book. She has written two other books for this series, one on Ernest Hemingway and the other, in both 1999 and 2003, on Sylvia Plath. 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), Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism (2009).

Read an Excerpt

  “Too many families and schools discourage creativity. I left home because I was determined to do what I wanted to do.”
       ------- Edward Albee, Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright
 
“It’s my belief that an artist should give people new glasses and a new cubistic approach to looking at themselves.”
       ---------- Julie Taymor, Theater and Film Director
 
“I’m always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.”
       ---------- James Rosenquist, Artist
 
“I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.
       --------- Daniel Libeskind, Architect
 
“If you think “I want to be famous,” or “I want to make a lot of money,” my sense is that you don’t go into most creative jobs.”
       -------- David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-wiining author
 
“The motivation for creativity is most often the need to express your ideas to other people.”
       -------- Spike Lee, Film Director
 
“We knew we had something so huge that Steve (Jobs) and I couldn’t do it by ourselves.”
       -------- Steve Wozniak, Co-founder of Apple Computer
 
“I have always felt that, for me, creativity was really using excess energy.”
        --------Dale Chihuly, Renowned Glass Sculptor
 
“People get enraged at me because they think women should not write about the things I write about, because the things that I write about, in some way, break with their notion of what a woman should be.”
       --------- Erica Jong, Best-selling Author
 
“There’s a conflict between professionalism that calls for minimizing risk, while creativity encourages risk.”
       ---------- Milton Glaser, Designer 

Table of Contents

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