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A selective bibliography of 38 active links for Ernest Hemingway, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
Researcher alert! There is almost no credible criticism on the widely-studied Hemingway novel, The Old Man and the Sea, on the free internet. Meanwhile there is plenty of garbage on this title from sites with names like echeat.com and plagiarist.com
Balbert, Peter. "Courage at the Border-Line: Balder, Hemingway, and Lawrence's The Captain's Doll" [D.H. Lawrence]. Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2006
Bauer, Margaret D. "Forget the legend and read the work: Teaching two stories by Ernest Hemingway." On Hemingway's short stories "Indian Camp" and "Hills Like White Elephants." College Literature, Summer 2003
Beegel, Susan F. "'A Room on the Garden Side'": Hemingway's unpublished liberation of Paris." Studies in Short Fiction, Fall, 1994
Beegel, Susan F. "'Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates' and male taciturnity in Hemingway's 'A Day's Wait.'" Studies in Short Fiction, Fall, 1993
Berman, Ron. "Vaudeville philosophers: 'The Killers.'" Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1999
Cotter, Janet M. "'The Old Man and the Sea': An 'Open' Literary Experience." First page of article only. The English Journal, Vol. 51, No. 7 (Oct., 1962), pp. 459-463
Fleming, Robert E. An introduction to Ernest Hemingway from the Literary Encyclopedia, 10 March 2001
Fleming, Robert E. "The Endings of Hemingway's Garden of Eden." First page of article only. American Literature, Vol. 61, No. 2 (May, 1989), pp. 261-270
Gaillard, Theodore L., Jr. "Hemingway's debt to Cezanne: new perspectives." [Paul Cezanne] Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1999
Grant, David. "Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and the tradition of the American in Europe." Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1998
Kobler, J.F. "'Soldier's Home' revisited: a Hemingway mea culpa." Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1993
Lamb, Robert Paul. "Hemingway and the creation of twentieth-century dialogue." Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 1996
Lamb, Robert Paul. "Hemingway's critique of anti-Semitism: semiotic confusion in 'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.'" Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1996
Prizel, Yuri. "Hemingway in Soviet Literary Criticism." First page of article only. American Literature, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Nov., 1972), pp. 445-456
Scholes, Robert. Transcript of a discussion on Hemingway with several scholars, 11/27/95, published by Professor Phillip Sipiora on his web site
Sipiora, Phillip. Transcript of a scholarly discussion on "Narrative Strategies and Effects in Hemingway," with J. Phelan and Phillip Sipiora, 11/29/95, Professor Sipiora's web site
Stewart, Matthew C. "Ernest Hemingway and World War I: Combatting recent psychobiographical reassessments, restoring the war." Papers on Language and Literature, Spring 2000
Tellefsen, Blythe. "Rewriting the self against the National text: Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden." Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 2000
Doctorow, E.L. "Braver Than We Thought," on Hemingway's The Garden of Eden. NYTimes, 8/18/86
Hallengren, Andres. "A Case of Identity: Ernest Hemingway." Covers Hemingway's continuing appeal, his hard-boiled style, his macho code, and The Garden of Eden. Nobel Prize web site, 8/28/01
A brief biography of Ernest Hemingway from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
A Teacher's Guide to Hemingway prepares students to challenge their assumptions about the author, recommends reading "Hills Like White Elephants" as a preparation to A Farewell to Arms. "The disaster that was World War One was a defining experience for writers of Hemingway's generation, especially those, like Hemingway, who served in the military." From publisher Heath
A biographical introduction to Hemingway, from his early years to his suicide in 1961, from Addison Wesley Longman
A NY Times web page on Hemingway with links to 28 Times reviews including early reviews of The Sun Also Rises (1926); A Farewell to Arms (1929); To Have and to Have Not (1937); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940); The Old Man and the Sea (1951) for which he won the Nobel Prize; additional news articles about his hunting, fist fights, appearance at a bullfight in Spain; interviews; and his Times obituary. (Requires registration)
Michael Palin's "Hemingway Adventure." Includes a section on Hemingway's connection with Spain, both from his interest in bullfighting and his novel about the sport, Death in the Afternoon, and his service in Spain as an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War. Another educational offering from public spirited television, PBS
A New York Times news article on a "previously unknown" Hemingway tale about a bullfight, "My Life in the Bull Ring With Donald Ogden Stewart" and a correction by the Times when they realized the story was not unknown. From Sept. 27, 2004 and Oct. 1, 2004
Some teaching notes about the "lost generation" from a college course at Central Virginia Community College
The Kansas City Star, for which Hemingway was a newspaper reporter in 1917-1918, has published an extensive collection of articles on Hemingway on its web page "Hemingway at 100."
An interview with American writers Richard Ford, Nicholas Delbanco and A.J. Verdelle asks what they like about Hemingway's writing. Says A.J. Verdelle, "I think that he lived in a time at the edge of florid 19th century, long writing. And he made it spare. He made it new. He made it vigorous. He made it fresh. And I appreciate him a great deal for that." Courtesy of the Online NewsHour, PBS, July 21, 1999
Teaching resources for Ernest Hemingway from C-Span, from their 2002 American Writers series
A web site on teaching Hemingway from the Annenberg/PBS project "American Passages."
A web site devoted to Ernest Hemingway from CNN contains extensive material
News article about the deterioration of Finca Vigía, Hemingway's home by the sea in Cuba, and efforts to preserve it. From the International Herald Tribune, Oct. 15, 2004
CNN news article about Hemingway's granddaughter Mariel Hemingway who says she was amazed at how revered Hemingway is in Cuba
Short article about the lost generation of American expatriates in Paris following World War I, Hemingway's Paris of The Sun Also Rises and A Moveable Feast, from a web site for tourists
(removed) An accessible article in The Atlantic Monthly on Hemingway's "uneven achievement," by J. Atlas, originally published October 1983
(removed) Robert Manning recounts a visit to an aging Hemingway in Cuba. Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, August 1965.
A bibliographical guide to Ernest Hemingway from Professor Paul P. Reuben's Perspectives in American Literature web site
Information about the Hughes Collection of rare and first editions of Hemingway's novels and works of other writers of the Lost Generation, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, John dos Passos, and Gertrude Stein
About a 1995 conference in Cuba for Hemingway scholars from a Univ. of Delaware press release
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