Ah. Despite Hammett publishing (shortly) before
Hemingway...though not, somehow, Clemens...Thanks. TM
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> Whom aside from Mailer (I'm guessing) was cited as
an HB
> offspring of Papa H? Nelson Algren? TM
The article's by Sheldon Norman Grebstein, and his thesis is
that Hemingway "fathered the hard-boiled heroes who populate
the tough-guy novels of the Thirties and after....As Philip
Young and others have said, from Hemingway's novels were
derived the manner, world view, and the qualities of
character which defined the tough guy."
As you can see, we've discussed this fairly recently.
Here's another quotation that some of you will
appreciate:
"As Richard Bridgman has recently demonstrated in his book
The Colloquial Style in America, the tough style is a form of
colloquial style which descends most directly from Mark
Twain."
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