Hemingway biography baker
- His story spans six from a happy boyhood in a suburb of Chicago, to worldwide fame as a literary genius and heroic activist, and to the tragic last years of.
- Baker reveals a man of baffling complexity behind the myths and mystique of the Hemingway persona--volcanic, mercurial, frequently tortured, consumed with.
- Reprint of the first edition.
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Ernest Hemingway A Life Story by Carlos Baker 1969 – The Literary Guild
Title: Ernest Hemingway A Life Story
Author: Carlos Baker
Publisher: The Literary Guild
Publication Date: 1969
Format: Hardback
Condition: This book is in a good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear.
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Carlos Baker
American writer, biographer, and academic (1909–1987)
Carlos Baker (May 5, 1909 – April 18, 1987) was an American writer, biographer and former Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University. Baker was born in 1909 in Biddeford, Maine. He received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his M.A. from Harvard University. He then received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University in 1940 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "The influence of Spenser on Shelley's major poetry."[1] Baker's published works included several novels and books of poetry and various literary criticisms and essays.
In 1969, Baker published the well-regarded scholarly biography of Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, describing him as a "fierce individualist ... who believed that that government is best which governs least".[2] In "Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn", Hemingway's third wife, Gellhorn criticizes Baker's assertions concerning her affair and marriage to Hemingway, and indicates that Baker was frequently wrong ab
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Hemingway: a Life Story
Truly. The Hemingway that emerges in Carlos Baker’s mammoth (714 pages of small print, excluding notes) is virtually impossible to like, or even – it seems -- to pity (though that changes when it comes to his last feeble year or so). The four wives (Hadley, Pauline, Martha, and Mary), the blown up marriages, the blown up friendships, the drunken arguments, the literary knifings, are all here. I don’t sense any attempt by Baker to pull punches, though I'm sure later biographies have unearthed some real whoppers. In other words Baker has no axe to grind, but dutifully assembles the stuff (as in everything) of Hemingway’s life and records it – with a tone that is neutrally sympathetic -- in chronological fashion. On occasion Baker will linger over a piece of writing, and add some thoughtful insights, but never for more than a few lines, or a paragraph. Generally this is not a literary study, but a biography on the incredible life of a major literary figure. I've noticed that som
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