Books
May, 1969
First it had to happen, he said; and, second, the man to whom it happened had to "make it all come true." But since Ernest Hemingway's imagination was like a muscle that he had to keep in shape even when he wasn't writing fiction, Papa often made what hadn't really happened seem to come true, too, so that by the end, his life was entangled with his legend and the boundaries between fact and imagination were hopelessly booby-trapped by his overwhelming but disintegrating personality. Nu...