‘Generous and reflective’: letters show other sides to macho Ernest Hemingway
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In the mid-1930s, the novelist, then a controversial war correspondent, encouraged aspiring writers with frankness and humourHe cultivated a hard-drinking macho image, with a taste for big-game hunting and a love of bullfighting, but Ernest Hemingway had a generous and thoughtful side that is revealed in previously unpublished letters.In the decade after he made his name with A Farewell to Arms, his 1929 war novel, his correspondence shows that he repeatedly offered advice and encouragement – as...

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