Baker, Carlos, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969.

Baker's authorized biography is heavily detailed and well documented and remains one of the best biographies of Hemingway written.

De Falco, Joseph, The Hero in Hemingway's Short Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1963.

De Falco provides readings examining the psychological dynamics of Hemingway's short stories.

Griffin, Peter, Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years, Oxford University Press, 1985.

Griffin's study, which contains a foreword by Hemingway's son, Jack Hemingway, includes previously withheld materials, including letters and stories, to document Hemingway's life through the 1920s.

Hemingway, Mary Welsh, How It Was, Ballantine, 1977.

Mary Welsh was Hemingway's fourth and final wife. This book is a diary-driven account of her time with him.

Wagner, Linda Welshimer, Ernest Hemingway: Five Decades of Criticism, Michigan State University Press, 1974.

This volume collects essays on Hemingway's novels and stories and contains George Plimpton's 1958 Paris Review...