Baker, Carlos.Hemingway: The Writer as Artist. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. Important thematic study of Hemingway's fiction and non-fiction.
Benson, Jackson J., ed.New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1990. Collection by early expert on Hemingway.
Bruccoli, Matthew J.Fitzgerald and Hemingway: a Dangerous Friendship. London: André Deutsch, 1995. Correspondence between the two rivals; provides an interesting angle.
Donaldson, Scott, ed.The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Helpful collection on aspects of Hemingway's fiction and writing.
Lynn, Kenneth S.Hemingway. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Influential study that interprets Hemingway's life and work in the light of his sexuality, developing a "theory of androgyny".
Mellow, James R.Hemingway: A Life without Consequences. London: Sceptre, 1994. Good modern single-volume biography.
Messent, Peter B.Ernest Hemingway. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992. Studies Hemingway's style and influences, identity, gender relationships, and use of place.
Meyers, Jeffrey, ed.Hemingway: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982. Important collection of influential reviews.
Reynolds, Michael S.The Young Hemingway. New York and Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. First volume of a projected five-volume biography, scholarly and well researched.
Scafella, Frank, ed.Hemingway: Essays of Reassessment. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Study divided into treatments of Hemingway's writing and publishing process, the psychology of the works, and his biography.
Von Kurowsky, Agnes.Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes von Kurowsky, her letter, and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway. Boston: Northern University Press, 1989. Edited by Henry Villard and James Nagel. Interesting addition to genre of Hemingway memorabilia.
Young, Philip.Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966. Then controversial and very influential psychoanalytic study of Hemingway's life and work, developing the "wound theory" and "code hero".
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