A Dialogue Essay on Mailer and Hemingway

Authors

  • Philip Bufithis Shepherd University Author
  • Kirk Curnutt Troy University Author

Keywords:

Ernest Hemingway, The Naked and the Dead, A Farewell to Arms, war fiction and style, masculinity and literary identity

Abstract

A Mailer scholar and a Hemingway scholar discuss Hemingway’s influence on Mailer, engage in a comparative evaluation of their fiction, and show how differently they handled their celebrity.

Author Biographies

  • Philip Bufithis, Shepherd University

    Philip Bufithis is the author of Norman Mailer (1978, Japanese edition 1981) and is the former executive editor of the literary magazine Antietam Review. His essays and stories have appeared in many publications. He is Professor of English, Emeritus, at Shepherd University.

  • Kirk Curnutt, Troy University

    Kirk Curnutt is Professor and Chair of English at Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama. He is a board member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society and the author of Coffee with Hemingway (2007), with a preface by the late John Updike. In addition to publishing several other critical studies of American fiction—including co-editing Key West Hemingway: A Reassessment (2009) with Gail D. Sinclair—he is the author of two novels, Breathing Out the Ghost (2008) and Dixie Noir (2009).

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Published

2026-03-25

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2010): Literary Warriors

Section

Articles

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