Ernest Hemingway died In 1961 and for the past seven years Professor Carlos Baker of Prince-ton University has been working on the official biography Ernest Hemingway : a Lite Story with unprecedented access to letters and personal papers.
MALCOLM BRADBURY , head of the Department of American Studies, University of East Anglia, explains why, despite the fact that Professor Baker has ' collected the facts beautifully,' he finds the book fundamentally unsatisfactory.