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Audre Hanneman is the author of two monumental volumes of bibliography--Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography, published by Princeton University Press in 1967, and its Supplement, published in 1975. For decades, these classics have enabled students of Hemingway's work to locate all of his published writing in books, pamphlets, anthologies, newspapers, and periodicals, as well as to find library holdings, ephemera, and translations. Hanneman's bibliographies also record books on or significantly mentioning Hemingway through 1973, as well as newspaper and periodical materials about the author. For Hemingway scholars, these bibliographies are essential reference works. Here Hanneman recounts the story of compiling her bibliographies, a labor of love that began more than fifty years ago and is all the more remarkable for having been conducted in a world without word-processing, e-mail, the web, and on-line databases.
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Audre Hanneman should need no introduction to Hemingway scholars as the author of two monumental volumes of bibliography--Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography, published by Princeton University Press in 1967, and its Supplement, published in 1975. For decades, these classics in our field have enabled students of Hemingway's work to locate all of his published writing in books, pamphlets, anthologies, newspapers and periodicals, as well as library, holdings, ephemera, and translations. Hanneman's bibliographies also record books on or significantly mentioning Hemingway through 1973, as well as newspaper and periodical materials about the author. If you want to know whether that copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls you plucked out of the library book sale is a first edition, if you are looking for a translation of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" into Hebrew, if you are hunting for Gertrude Stein's poem about Hemingway, or the Chicago Tribune article about his decoration for valor in World War I, if you want to locate a copy of Hemingway's letter to Konstantin Simonov first published in Sputnik, or find reviews of Laurence Stallings's 1930 play of A Farewell to Arms--Hanneman is your woman. For Hemingway scholars, these bibliographies are not only essential reference works, but gold mines of information and possible projects--and even fascinating reads. Here Hanneman recounts the story of compiling her bibliography, a labor of love that began more than fifty years ago and is all the more remarkable for having been conducted in a world without word-processing, e-mail, the web, and on-line databases.--Ed.
MY INTEREST IN ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S WORK began in 1953, when I was twenty-six, staying at home in Kansas City, Missouri, caring for my mother, and reading the books on a list of 100 Best Novels. I was about a quarter of the way through the list when I read A Farewell to Arms. Soon after, in May 1953, I bought the Modern Library edition of The Sun Also Rises, the first book in my collection. For the next six years I read, and compiled information on, work by and about Hemingway. I spent many Saturdays at the Kansas City Public Library and a used-book-and-magazine store, ordered books from catalogues, and was given access to The Kansas City Star's file on Hemingway.
My first research trip was to Oak Park in the spring of 1954. I told the librarian that I had half-expected to see a banner proclaiming Oak Park as the hometown of Ernest Hemingway. He said Hemingway was persona non grata. He had not returned in 1951 to attend his mother's funeral. (He was...
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