To the Editor: The relationship between the details of Ernest Hemingway's life and his fiction is a constant source of fascination and frustration, as Arthur Phillips notes in his Nov. 13 review (''The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1 -- 1907-1922,'' ''Hemingway: A Life in Pictures,'' ''Hemingway's Boat''). Hemingway himself was attuned to the...
THE LETTERS OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY Volume 1: 1907-1922 By Edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon Illustrated. 431 pp. Cambridge University Press. $40 HEMINGWAY A Life in Pictures By Boris Vejdovsky with Mariel Hemingway Illustrated. 207 pp. Firefly Books. Paper, $29.95 HEMINGWAY'S BOAT Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 By Paul...
WASHINGTON HEMINGWAY could be hard on women. And women could be hard on Hemingway. I have always been a Fitzgerald girl. What could be more gorgeous than ''The Great Gatsby''? If you perused Hemingway in college in the first flush of feminism, he seemed like a relic. As F. Scott Fitzgerald noted, Hemingway needed a new wife for every big book. And...