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Hemingway: a Life Story

by Carlos Baker · 1969

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Now hailed as a classic, Carlos Baker's bestselling biography of Hemingway brings into sharp focus one of the titans of 20th-century American literature, a writer whose life itself was the stuff of legend.

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