When it comes to the prose of manliness, one figure looms large - Ernest Hemingway, the tough-talking, hard-drinking, war-scarred "Papa" of modernist writing.
Writer Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of his friend and fellow author F. Scott Fitzgerald, said of Hemingway scathingly: "Nobody is as male as all that."
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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on June 16, 2019, with the headline Journey into new worlds. Subscribe