By-Line: Ernest Hemingway
By-Line: Ernest Hemingway is a 1967 collection of 77 of the articles that Ernest Hemingway wrote as a journalist between 1920 and 1956. The collection was edited by William White, a professor of English literature and journalism at Wayne State University, and a regular contributor to "The Hemingway Review". "By-Line: Ernest Hemingway" has been translated into fourteen languages and made the "New York Times" best-seller list. Background. Hemingway began his career at 18 as a reporter for "", and his total journalistic output has been estimated to amount to more than a million words  over four decades. The 77 articles published in "By-Line: Ernest Hemingway" were selected from newsprint and files of magazines, and bring to light Hemingway's inimitable style, his story-telling skills and his personality. As a reporter and foreign correspondent in Kansas City before World War I, then in Chicago, Toronto, Paris among the expatriates, the Near East, in Europe with the diplomats and statesmen, in Germany and Spain, Hemingway observed people and absorbed places like a sponge: these were later to become subject matter for his short stories and novels. Although he was also a good reporter, showing  a grasp of politics, economics, and knew how to dig for information, his craft was that of fiction: his writing shows how he felt about what he saw. Description. "By-Line: Ernest Hemingway" comprises five sections: Writing style. The editor, William White, wrote: Legacy. "By-Line: Ernest Hemingway" was translated into fourteen languages and made the "New York Times" best-seller list.