Title
Telling Stories from Hemingway’s FBI File: Conspiracy, Paranoia, and Masculinity
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Discusses the many stories and novels appearing since Hemingway’s suicide aiming to reveal the truth of his association with the FBI and recover his heroic stature, including Simmons’s The Crook Factory (1999) and Padura Fuentes’s Adiós Hemingway (2005). Assessing the author’s difficult association with Hoover, Moddelmog writes: “Hoover and Hemingway, both overly sensitive and anxious about their masculinity, would develop an antipathy toward each other.”
Published in
Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950
Date
2008
Pages
53-72
COinS
Citation
Moddelmog, Debra A. “Telling Stories from Hemingway’s FBI File: Conspiracy, Paranoia, and Masculinity.” In Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950, edited by Claire A. Culleton and Karen Leick, 53-72. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.