Selected Bibliography

Works by Ernest Hemingway

There is a wealth of unpublished writing by Ernest Hemingway at the Hemingway Archives of the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, including letters, pages from journals, and a number of stories and articles in various stages of completion, as well as family scrapbooks, old hunting licenses, and other ephemera. The following is a selected list of sources relating to Hemingway and hunting.

Across the River and Into the Trees. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950.

By-Line: Ernest Hemingway. Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades. Edited by William White. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961.

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. The Finca Vigía Edition. New York: Scribner, 1987.

Dateline: Toronto. The Complete Toronto Star Dispatches, 19201924. Edited by William White. New York: Scribner, 1985.

Death in the Afternoon. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932.

Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 19171961. Edited by Carlos Baker. New York: Scribner, 1981.

Numerous references to hunting may be found in the published letters, in which Hemingway sometimes writes of his works, such as Green Hills of Africa, or of the thrill of the hunt and his love of the great outdoors, as well as of his much greater commitment to writing. The following letters are those which I found particularly interesting, illuminating, and, at times, generally amusing.

To: Clarence E. Hemingway (5/2/22); Clarence E. Hemingway (11/7/23); Clarence E. Hemingway (3/20/25); Waldo Pierce (8/23/28); F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/13/29); Henry Strater (c. 6/20/30); Henry Strater (c. 9/10/30); Archibald MacLeish (11/22/30); Henry Strater (12/10/31); Henry Strater (10/14/32); Guy Hickok (10/14/32); Patrick Hemingway (12/2/33); Arnold Gingrich (7/15/34); Sara Murphy (7/10/35); Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (8/16/36); Arnold Gingrich (9/16/36); Eugene Jolas (c. late March 1938); Arnold Gingrich (10/22/38); Charles Scribner (c. 8/15/40); Maxwell Perkins (c. 10/12/40); Charles Scribner (c. 11/20/41); Hadley Mawrer (7/23/42); Patrick Hemingway (11/19/44); General Charles T. Lanham (11/2/46); Charles Scribner (8/19/49); Harvey Breit (6/29/52); Bernard Berenson (10/14/52); Bernard Berenson (9/15/53); Harvey Breit (1/3/54); General Charles T. Lanham (11/10/54); Charles Scribner (8/14/56); Gianfranco Ivancich (1/7/59); Patrick Hemingway (8/5/59).

A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.

For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940.

Green Hills of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935.

Men at War. Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Hemingway. New York: Crown Publishers, 1942.

“My Pal the Gorilla Gargantua.” Ken, July 28, 1938.

“Safari.” Look magazine, January 26, 1954.

True at First Light. With an introduction by Patrick Hemingway. New York: Scribner, 1999.

A Very Brief List of Works About Ernest Hemingway (especially his life as a hunter)

From the wealth of essays, articles, and books written about my grandfather, I have found the following works particularly helpful and relevant to his hunting and his writing as it relates to the sport he so loved.

Arnold, Lloyd R. High on the Wild with Hemingway. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1968. The best source for hunting during the Idaho years, with many excellent photographs by the author.

Baker, Carlos. Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1969. Still a fundamental resource, with much information on Hemingway’s hunting life.

Bredahl, A. Carl, and Susan Lynn Drake. Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa as Evolutionary Narrative. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990. A scholarly revisionist assessment of Green Hills of Africa that finds it an impressive work in its own right and a central piece in the development of Hemingway’s writing.

Buckley, Peter. Ernest. New York: Dial Press, 1978. An excellent collection of photographs from every period in Hemingway’s life, combined with a thoughtful biographical essay by a personal friend.

Bull, Bartle, Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure. London: Viking Press, 1988. An entertaining book that places Hemingway and his work in the context of the history of the African safari.

Cappel, Constance. Hemingway in Michigan. Petoskey, Mich.: Little Traverse Historical Society, 1999. This book contains a reprint of the story “Judgement of Manitou” and other early Hemingway fiction.

Hemingway, Gregory H. Papa: A Personal Memoir. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. My father’s honest memoir filled with personal insights.

Hemingway, Hilary, and Jeffrey P. Lindsay. Hunting with Hemingway. New York: Riverhead Books, 2000. Tall tales of hunting adventures with EH.

Hemingway, Leicester. My Brother, Ernest Hemingway. New York: Fawcett World Library, 1963. Particularly good for recollections of hunting expeditions in the early years.

Hemingway, Mary Welsh. How It Was. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

Hemingway, Patrick. “The Elephants of Tsavo: The Failure of Stewardship,” in Sacred Trusts: Essays on Stewardship and Responsibility. Edited by Michael Katakis. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1993, pp. 98–111. A fascinating case study of an area of East Africa in the years after Hemingway’s safaris.

Howell, John M. Hemingway’s African Stories: The Stories, Their Sources, Their Critics. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1969.

Meyers, Jeffrey. Hemingway: A Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1985. An excellent one-volume biography.

Percival, Philip H. Hunting, Settling and Remembering. Agoura, Calif.: Trophy Room Books, 1997. A personal glimpse into the days of pre-automobile hunting safaris as well as remembrances of his times with EH.

Reynolds, Michael. The Young Hemingway. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1986.

—. Hemingway: The Homecoming. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1992.

—. Hemingway: The 1930’s. New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1997.

—. Hemingway: The Final Years. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1999.

Ross, Lillian. Portrait of Hemingway. New York: Random House, 1997. An interview with Papa in 1950, written for The New Yorker, that captures some of his complex character vividly.

Turgenev, Ivan. A Sportsman’s Sketches. First published in 1852. One of Hemingway’s favorite collections of stories about hunting.

Voss, Frederick, with an essay by Michael Reynolds. Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. A beautifully illustrated catalogue that accompanied a centennial exhibition on Hemingway held at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.