Title
The Short Story Just Got Shorter: Hemingway, Narrative, and the Six-Word Urban Legend
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Investigates Hemingway’s supposed authorship of the “Baby Shoes” text, identifying playwright John de Groot and his one-character play on Hemingway’s life entitled Papa (1988) as the source. Wright theorizes on the six-word text’s impact on popular culture and discusses the problems associated with defining such a short piece as a story.
Published in
Journal of Popular Culture
Volume
47
Issue
2
Date
2014
Pages
327-340
COinS
Citation
Wright, Frederick A. “The Short Story Just Got Shorter: Hemingway, Narrative, and the Six-Word Urban Legend.” Journal of Popular Culture 47, no. 2 (Apr. 2014): 327-40.