Of his Hemingway biography, The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him, (Grove, 1988), Elmore Leonard wrote, “Some time ago I stopped reading Hemingway not wanting the man’s persona ,true or false, to influence the respect I had for his prose. Then along came The True Gen, and it’s irresistible.” George Seldes called it was the best biography of Hemingway he’d ever read, and he’d read plenty. This book can be purchased at amazon.com.
