Suicide and Literary Biography: The Case of Hemingway
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-1997
Abstract
A writer's suicide confronts his or her biographers with special problems and opportunities. Drawing primarily on biographies of Ernest Hemingway for its examples, this article examines the narrative and rhetorical strategies often employed to present literary lives that end in suicide.
Publication Information
Sanderson, Richard K. and Sanderson, Rena. (1997). "Suicide and Literary Biography: The Case of Hemingway". Biography, 20(4), 405-436. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2010.0143
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