A Review: Papa: A Personal Memoir

Jim Cherry
Sep 4, 2018 · 2 min read
Hemingway and sons Patrick (right) and Gregory (left) Cuba, July 1942 (John F. Kenndy Presidential Library)

When I was growing up, Hemingway (so ubiquitous was his name and legend you don’t have to attach the qualifier of his first name, everyone knows who you’re talking about) was the model of a writer, living a larger than life life and writing about it. I’ve read most of Hemingway’s novels, and those novels pushed me to his biographies to try and figure out his secrets. While they were successful in transmitting the legend, the…

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Jim Cherry

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I lived the first 23 years of my life in my imagination. If you want to know more about me you can find me in between the lines of my stories.

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