Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years
"[Griffin] has shown me insights into my own father's character and behavior I would not have thought possible in view of the time lapse between Hemingway's death and the research he accomplished."--Jack Hemingway"Griffin's book provides a bewildering and highly satisfying richness of incident....His scholarship is thorough and his involvement with his subject is so complete and so creative that the reader cannot help murmuring with approval and enlightenment at page after page."--James Dickey"A wonderful and intimate book....It brings to life the young Hemingway with all his charm, vitality, good looks, passionate dedication to writing, like nothing else I've ever read about the man."--Raymond Carver,The New York Times Book Review"A wonderful beginning...[to] a three-volume biography."--Ward Just,Virginia Quarterly Review"One of the most purely attractive biographies I have ever read...A wonderful beginning...[to] a three-volume biography."--Ward Just,Virginia Quarterly Review