Ernest Hemingway was the master of the simple, declarative sentence during his time. By contrast, when Saul Bellow came along, he wrote descriptive sentences full of verbal energy. “This was a great ...

ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES (308 pp.)—Ernest Hemingway—Scribner ($3). Hemingway was the champ all right. He was past 50, but still the champ, and he was ready to take on all comers. He had ...

Published a century ago, Hemingway’s first major book finds him as a fully formed writer, addressing eternal themes of war ...

I’ve had this itch ever since I walked the streets of Havana in 1999 and a group of Cuban children surrounded me and chanted, “Hemingway, Hemingway.” That became my nickname among the writers ...