SOURCE: Hicks, Granville. “Hemingway: The Complexities That Animated the Man.” Saturday Review of Literature 52, no. 16 (19 April 1969): 31-33, 43.

In the following favorable review, Hicks regards Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story as objective and superbly researched.

Of seven books about Ernest Hemingway and his writings that have appeared in recent months the most important is Carlos Baker's semi-official biography, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. In his foreword Baker describes the nature of his authority: “This biography was undertaken at the invitation of Charles Scribner, Jr., president of the publishing company which brought out all of Hemingway's major works from 1926 onwards. The work was carried on with the full knowledge and cooperation of Mary Welsh Hemingway, the author's widow and literary executor, who generously permitted the biographer to examine whatever documents he wished to see without attempting to influence his judgments or his interpretations.” In addition to making use of the...