Tim O’Brien, on death in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" Ernest Hemingway reading on his boat, Pilar, 1947-1948. Credit: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum ...

Ernest Hemingway died in 1961 and yet in just the last decade there have been five full-length biographies of the author, not to mention books on his wives, his boats, and even his cats. What Nancy W.