In 1950 she wrote her classic profile of Ernest Hemingway, from which we learned that even his wife Mary called him “Papa,” and he called her (and Marlene Dietrich) “Daughter.” And that he often spoke in a peculiar broken-English idiom he thought of as the way “Indians” spoke English - not Indians like me, but Native Americans. And that he always, always spoke of writing as if it was a prize fight, or gladiatorial combat, which he had to win, both against his contemporaries and against the great dead. (He told Ross he had beaten Turgenev and Maupassant but wouldn’t go up against Tolstoy, unless he got much better.)
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