My sincere gratitude to Patrick Hemingway for considering me for this project, for working with me and suggesting a number of pieces to include in this volume, and for his thoughtful Foreword; to Gregory Hemingway for his encouragement, suggestions, and critical reading of my text; to Michael Katakis, sincere and heartfelt thanks; to Jeffrey Meyers and Robert M. Myers for their helpful suggestions; to Megan Desnoyers of the Hemingway Archives at the John F. Kennedy Library for her tireless assistance with research pertaining to unpublished materials in the collection, to her assistant Lauren Constantino, and to Allan Goodrich, James Hill, and Courtney Paquette at the A/V archives for invaluable help with the photographic material; to the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, Inc., for permission to publish excerpts from the letters; to Simon and Schuster for permission to reprint excerpts from published works, and to Lydia Zelaya for facilitating this permission; to Nick and Tony Lyons for their shared enthusiasm and efforts, and to Brando Skyhorse for his assistance; to Brant Rumble for his assistance with the paperback edition; to the photographer John Bryson; to Patrice Czapski and Scott McManus for the use of their new home on Cape Cod as a place to write; and to Carol Hemingway, Ida Hemingway, Valerie Hemingway, Angela Hemingway, Brian Gaisford, and Joseph Czapski for their encouragement and suggestions. Finally, I reserve my warmest note of appreciation for my wife, Colette, for her assistance and never-ending support throughout this endeavor.