His own vigorous and adventurous life often formed the background and provided the material for Ernest Hemingway's fiction, the best of which is included in this volume. His tough, taut, highly-individual and inimitable prose style, nurtured from his earliest days as a reporter, was a splendid vehicle for his themes, his visions and his stories. No twentieth-century writer equalled his range of experience, nor put experience to more effective use.
