To judge from the frequency with which biographies of him continue to appear nearly four decades after his death, Ernest Hemingway remains as fascinating a figure now as he was to his contemporaries. The reasons for this fascination have, of course, changed to some extent. The public perception of any writer undergoes an alteration after his or her death, when the facts of the private life--some of them perhaps deliberately concealed--begin to come to light. …showed first 75 words of 1881 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1881 total…admiration for Hemingway in his lifelong struggle against crippling emotional shocks and scars, and be sustained and uplifted by the fact that out of that struggle he created some of the most beautifully and powerfully written stories and novels of our time, works that somehow console us through their own refusal to take consolation anywhere but in the pride that comes from staring without flinching into the void at the center of experience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**