Credit: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. The end of that novel is as good as anything Hemingway ever wrote I think. … Hemingway all his life ...

could handle a pistol," wrote Grace Hemingway on the back of one family photograph. In another, angelic Ernest stands at the end of a happy family group, looking the picture of innocence ...

Hutchisson (Penn State University Press, 320 pp., $37.95) Norman Mailer once located courage in Ernest Hemingway’s manic depression. Proof of this, according to Mailer, was that Papa was able to ...