Michael Reynolds - Hemingway: The Paris Years

H EMINGWAY: T HE P ARIS Y EARS

BY MICHAEL REYNOLDS

The Young Hemingway

Hemingway: The Paris Years

Hemingway: The Homecoming

Hemingway: The 1930s

Hemingway: The Final Years

Michael Reynolds

This book is for the Supper Club

Let the ritual begin, for I bring garlic, herbs and oil to hold the night in place.

The story of your life is not your life. It is your story.

John Barth

No biography is ever written alone, and to be finished is to be thankful to many who helped.

I am grateful to John, Patrick and Gregory Hemingway and the Hemingway Foundation for their generosity to scholars, and in particular for their permission to print previously unpublished material from the manuscripts and letters of Ernest Hemingway. Excerpts from Dateline: Toronto by Ernest Hemingway, ed. W. White, are reprinted by kind permission of Charles Scribners Sons, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Company (copyright 1985 Mary Hemingway, John Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway and Gregory Hemingway), and The Hemingway Foreign Rights Trust. Excerpts from Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, ed. Carlos Baker, are reprinted by kind permission of Charles Scribners Sons, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Company (copyright 1981 Mary Hemingway), Grafton Books, a division of William Collins and Sons, and The Hemingway Foreign Rights Trust. The detailed maps of part of Paris on pages ii and iii appear by kind permission of the Map Division of the Library of Congress.

I give special thanks to: the National Endowment for the Humanities whose grant made possible the free year to write the book; John Bassett and the English Department of North Carolina State University whose encouragement and financial support were there when I needed them; the English Department of the University of New Mexico for visiting privileges. I should also like to thank the libraries and staffs who did their jobs well: the Stanford University Library and the Field Collection; the Bancroft at University of California, Berkeley; the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana; the Beinecke Library at Yale; the Firestone Library at Princeton; the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas; the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia; Interlibrary Loan at D. H. Hill Library, North Carolina State University; and the Library of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Special thanks are due to Megan Desnoyers, curator of the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, for help early and late.

To be thanked as well are all the members of the Hemingway Society who, over the years, have given me much heart and always kept a place for me at the bar.

In Santa Fe, there are these to thank: David Salazar and his Santa Fe restaurant El Farol for sustaining us with good tapas and Fundador; Sharon Zaccari and Bob Keesing for good housing; Marcia Cate and her Los Llanos Book Store, a writers haven; Samuel Adelo for his translations; Ann Brady for being a good neighbor; C.J. and Dierdre for helping out.

Closer to home, I thank Ann Reynolds, who listened to every word of it, corrected every page, insisted on important additions, remembered rare connections, went to all the research centers, took excellent notes, and seldom lost her patience. This woman, my wife, who composes only Miltonic sentences, assisted in every phase except the actual writing of this book. I also thank Paul Smith who shared everything his insights and information, his house and pool, his own manuscript, and even gave up his balcony room at Caux. No better friend or critic could I find. Also, Patsy and Hal Hopfenberg, Jen and George Bireline: good readers and good friends whose comments made this a better book, whose interests have made me a better writer. Almost everything important begins in the kitchen. Thanks too to Bob and Esther Fleming whose close reading picked a good many nits out of this book, and whose questions were always on the mark; Don Junkins whose poets eye forced me to my revisions, and for whose dialogue I am indebted; Charlene Turner for logistical support; Maury and Marcia Neville for sharing; Bernice Kert for helping at short notice; Noel Riley Fitch and Jerry Kennedy for helping me keep the streets in place; Lu Brennan for mapping the territory when there wasnt a moment to lose; Brad Dismukes and Jake Martin for always providing over the years a warm bed and a full plate. Old friends indeed.

Thanks are also due to Russ and Katie Boone for photographic assistance and moral support; and the Tourist Information Center in Rapallo, Italy, for help with translation, photographs and historical material. Special gratitude goes to Claire Andrews for her patience and diligence in editing this book.

And, as always and forever, Carlos Baker. Even in death his files support the living: honey from the belly of the dead lion.

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