Amazon.com description: Product Description: Our appreciation of Ernest Hemingway's life and art is enhanced by this new collection of twelve essays. There is much fresh information here: several of the pieces are based on previously unpublished manuscripts and letters from the Kennedy Library and various private collections, while others offer intimate impressions of the author by key literary figures who were involved with him personally and professionally. For all students and scholars of twentieth century American literature, this lively and valuable collection of original material will be essential reading.