Abstract
In spring, 1925, when Hemingway and Fitzgerald met, the famous Scott found himself enthusiastically talking to Ernest about his becoming a Scribner author. Once that idea embedded itself in Hemingway’s mind, his exuberance about In Our Time’s being published by Liveright began to fade. Although he did not mention breaking his three-book contract with the latter company, Ernest knew that Liveright had the option on his second novel only if they bought it; if they didn’t want that manuscript, the contract would be invalid. Hemingway was sure the manuscript he was now calling The Sun Also Rises would be a big novel (at least on the comparatively modest scale he was imagining); he knew that he did not want that book to be the second one Liveright would see. For their advance of $200 for In Our Time, the company hardly deserved his first serious novel.
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Notes
- 1.
Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway, 159–64; see correspondence between Hemingway and Max Perkins in The Only Thing That Counts, 32–53.
- 2.
See my Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, An American Woman’s Life.
- 3.
Gioia Diliberto, Hadley (1992), 186ff.
- 4.
Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur, 146–50 and see Donaldson, Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald.
- 5.
“Racial and Sexual Coding in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises,” Hemingway Review, 1991, 39–41.
- 6.
Diliberto, Hadley, 205–10; Bernice Kert, Hemingway Women, 172–78; Baker, Ernest Hemingway, 160–65.
- 7.
Pauline Pfeiffer to Ernest and Hadley Hemingway, January 14 and 16, 1926; Pfeiffer collection, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 8.
Michael S. Reynolds, Hemingway: Paris Years (1989), 343.
- 9.
Hadley to Hemingway, May 21, 1926, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 10.
Ibid.
- 11.
Hadley to Hemingway, August 20, 1926, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 12.
Pauline to Hemingway, October 2, 1926, Ibid.
- 13.
Hadley to Hemingway, September 17, 1926;Hadley to Hemingway, August 20, 1926; Pauline to Hemingway, October 2, 1926.
- 14.
John Dos Passos, The Best Times, an Informal Memoir (1966), 223.
- 15.
Pauline to Hemingway, October 1, 1926, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 16.
Ibid., October 2, 1926, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 17.
Ibid., October 29, 1926, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 18.
See Reynolds, Hemingway Chronology, 40–47; Bruccoli, The Only Thing That Counts, 36–56.
- 19.
Hadley to Hemingway, October 16, 1926, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 20.
Ibid., November 16, 1926, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 21.
Pauline Pfeiffer to Hadley Hemingway, October, 1926, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 22.
Hemingway to Hadley, November 18, 1926, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 23.
Hadley to Hemingway, letters undated except for January, 1927, Hemingway Archive, John F. Kennedy Library.
- 24.
Marcelline Hemingway, At the Hemingways, letter from Marcelline to Ernest, February 7, 1927, 319. Leicester Hemingway’s My Brother describes in greater length the “shame” his parents felt at the divorce (102–03).
- 25.
Madelaine Hemingway Miller, Ernie: Hemingway’s Sister “Sunny” Remembers, (1975), 3, 103 and 104.
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Wagner-Martin, L. (2021). Pauline Pfeiffer and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. In: Ernest Hemingway. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86255-8_6
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