Ernest Hemingway’s public persona and reputation, literary style, affinity with modern painting, and conception of character are among the subjects of these commentaries on the author’s life and work. Following my general introduction, R. Baird Shuman introduces us to Hemingway’s life. In her contribution for The Paris Review, Petrina Crockford speaks of his “adventurous life as brash and uncompromising as that of his greatest characters.”