- Title
- A Way to Live Now: How Journalism Shaped Ernest Hemingway
- Author/Creator
- John Fenstermaker
- Annotation
- Traces the role of newspaper and magazine writing in Hemingway’s life and work. The titular journalism involves not only his own work, from his high school newspaper onward through Kansas City, Toronto, Spain, and World War II, but the writing about him. Especially central to Fenstermaker’s study are the 1930s, “the decade of his greatest productivity,” when Hemingway also began contributing prominent essays for the newly launched Esquire, and the 1960s and ‘70s, when the male-dominant magazine and its editor and publisher Arnold Gingrich continued to promote him as a cultural and literary superstar. The author illustrates Hemingway’s journalism as an often hybrid blend of factual non-fiction and creative invention based on the personal experience of his “multifaceted persona” and notes the often-derisive critical reaction to the Esquire essays as well as to books of reporting and fiction including Death in the Afternoon, To Have and Have Not, and Green Hills of Africa.
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press; Baton Rouge
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book
- Record Identifier
- 991015417573103691
Book
A Way to Live Now: How Journalism Shaped Ernest Hemingway
Louisiana State University Press
2025
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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