In his highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story, Robert Paul Lamb delivers a dazzling analysis of the craft of this influential writer. Lamb scrutinizes a selection of Hemingway s exemplary stories to illuminate the author s methods of construction and to show how craft criticism complements and enhances cultural literary studies. The Hemingway Short Story reconciles the creative writer s focus on art with the concerns of cultural critics, establishing the value that craft criticism holds for all readers.

Robert Paul Lamb received his doctorate in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University. He is author of Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story and coeditor of A Companion to American Fiction, 1865--1914. He was named the 2008 Indiana Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation.