Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous
publications: A Moveable Feast 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition)
Islands in the Stream 1970 and The Garden of Eden 1986. Linda Wagner-Martin provides
background and intertextual readings-particularly of the way Hemingway's unpublished stories
(Phillip Haines was a writer) and his fiction from Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing
interface with the memoir. The revised edition also highlights and provides background on
Hemingway's treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein his life in Paris in the 1920s
and his connection to the poetry scene there-putting this in conversation with Mary Hemingway's
edits of A Moveable Feast. The new chapters also illuminate the reception of Islands in the
Stream and a new way of understanding the role of gender and androgyny in The Garden of Eden.
On a whole the book draws from extensive archival research particularly correspondence of all
four of Hemingway's wives.
