Ernest Hemingway was a larger than life figure, an American icon that represented masculinity at its highest form. He was a hunter, fisherman, and connoisseur of bullfights and boxing, with culture, power and sex. He seemed to be the epitome of a man’s man who dared others to seek adventures. However, he was also a complex character who has left critics and biographers analyzing his writing and lifestyle for decades. Hemingway biographer, Pete Hamill remarks that Hemingway is one of those artists whose life sort of trumps the work he became the darling of the advent of photojournalism a kind of calvary of American letters (NPR pp). According to Hamill, the press loved Hemingway because of the way he looked, and the combination of that plus the things he wrote created an image of him that overwhelmed the work and the man.