![]() ![]() despite what countless acolytes might claim, Hemingway was not the greatest American writer of the 20th century. The preposterous literary myth that Hemingway himself created and nurtured, meanwhile-that of the brawling, hard-drinking, thrill-seeking sportsman who is also an uncompromising, soulful artist-ensured that generations of writers would not merely revere him, but (often to their abiding detriment) would also try to emulate him.Īnd yet most readers, when pressed, might name a slew of other authors, living and dead (Faulkner, Bellow, Cormac McCarthy) who, across the years, crafted more varied and more consistently excellent work than Hemingway’s. After all, if he had written nothing besides, say, The Sun Also Rises, the early collection, In Our Time, and the superlative “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” he would still be an indispensable American writer. That Ernest Hemingway was, for years, the most celebrated writer in America is hardly surprising. ![]()
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