Still Famous after All These Years: Ernest Hemingway in the Twenty-First Century

Considers the state of Hemingway family affairs as beneficiaries and overseers of the writer\u27s legacy and brand in the lifestyle marketplace. Traces an ever-growing academic interest in Hemingway\u27s work and an increasing focus on his literary celebrity. Notes how the run of recent biographies has been arguably eclipsing interest in his books and how popular, fictional takes on his life continue to heighten his fame beyond the bounds of his literature. In sum, argues how even Hemingway\u27s suicide contributed to his celebrity and complicated the persisting image of him as a male icon and man of the world