Hemingway in a letter to Ross later on: “I get so tired of reading how you devastated, destroyed me and did me irreparable harm in that profile. I always explain to people that we are good friends and that you had no malice toward me and they act as though I were getting soft in the brain”
Lillian Ross’s piece about Ernest Hemingway did much to create the modern profile—and to damage his reputation. What really went on between the two writers?
The Profile Hemingway Could Never Live Down
When Lillian Ross profiled the celebrated novelist, the world saw ridicule and ruin. But letters between the reporter and her subject reveal something far more complicated.
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February 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Hemingway in a letter to Ross later on: “I get so tired of reading how you devastated, destroyed me and did me irreparable harm in that profile. I always explain to people that we are good friends and that you had no malice toward me and they act as though I were getting soft in the brain”
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