Publisher Adds Warnings to Hemingway Works, to Dismay of Biographers and Scholars

Publisher Adds Warnings to Hemingway Works, to Dismay of Biographers and Scholars
The monument to U.S. Nobel Prize Ernest Hemingway in the Cojimar neighborhood in Havana on Sept. 8, 2014. Adalberto Roque/AFP via Getty Images
Carly Mayberry
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Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway is the latest literary target of a politically correct publisher who feels compelled to qualify the writings of one of the nation’s most influential authors for readers.

Publisher Penguin Random House recently reissued his works with warnings on “language and attitudes,” a move which is drawing criticism from both Hemingway biographers and some university professors.

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