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Hemingway by Lillian Ross.It came out in May,1950,and has beentalked about ever since.It has become aclassic,perhaps because,to a degree thathas rarely been equalled in a factual por-trait,it contains the very breath of life.Miss Ross does not present us with hintsor rumors of Hemingway,or data onHemingway;instead,on page after page,Hemingway is simply there.  \nWhen Miss Ross wrote this Profile,shemade several literary innovations,one ofwhich was to compose a portrait entirelyin terms of action.Hemingway movesfrom one actual situation to another;hearrives at a New York airport from Cuba,he goes to the Sherry-Netherland Hotelwith his wife,he opens a bottle of cham-pagne,he makes some telephone calls,hegets together with friends,he shops atAbercrombie &Fitch,he walks throughthe Metropolitan Museum with his son,and he talks and talks—at times exuber-antly,at times reflectively,always bril-liantly—about his work,his pleasures,his plans,his notions,and anything elsethat happens to enter his head.Miss Ross,a scarcely noticed bystander,sensitively,affectionately,sets it all down,or at least  \n(Continued on back flap)  \n$2.50  \n1  \n100  \n愿  \n# PORTRAIT QF\n\nHEMINGWAY  \nBY LILLIAN ROSS  \nSIMON AND SCHUSTER·I96I  \nNEW YORK  \nALL RIGHTS RESERVED  \nINCLUDING THE RIGHT OF REPRODUCTION  \nIN WHOLE OR IN PART IN ANY FORM  \nCOPYRIGHT   I950,I96I BY LILLIAN ROSs  \nPUBLISHED BY SIMON AND SCHUSTER,INC.  \nROCKEFELLER CENTER,630 FIFTH AVENUENEW YORK 20,N.Y.  \nFIRST PRINTING  \nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER:6I-I7707MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICABY H.WOLFF BOOK MFG.Co.,NEW YORK,N.Y.","cbCaitBPA0kVN9Qa","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitBPA0kVN9Qa","pdf",2875026,76,"English","# Portrait of Hemingway\n## Background and Context\n## Literary Innovations in the Profile\n## Publication Details","[{\"question\":\"Who is the author of the profile on Ernest Hemingway?\",\"answer\":\"The profile was written by the journalist Lillian Ross.\"},{\"question\":\"When 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