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Modern Library
July 1999
On Sale: July 6, 1999
Featuring: Ernest Hemingway
112 pages
ISBN: 0375754385
EAN: 9780375754388
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Non-Fiction Biography
On May 13, 1950, Lillian Ross's first portrait of Ernest
Hemingway was published in The New Yorker. It was an account
of two days Hemingway spent in New York in 1949 on his way
from Havana to Europe. This candid and affectionate profile
was tremendously controversial at the time, to the great
surprise of its author. Booklist said, "The piece
immediately conveys to the reader the kind of man Hemingway
was--hard-hitting, warm, and exuberantly alive." It remains
the classic eyewitness account of the legendary writer, and
it is reproduced here with the preface Lillian Ross prepared
for an edition of Portrait in 1961.
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, and to celebrate
the centenary of this event, Ms. Ross has written a second
portrait of Hemingway for The New Yorker, detailing the
friendship the two struck up after the completion of the
first piece. It is included here in an amended form.
Together, these two works establish the definitive sketch of
one of America's greatest writers
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