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.

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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).

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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