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Hemingway himself probably best answers this question in his 1958 interview with George Plimpton. In the interview, Hemingway provides a list of his “literary forebears.” Hemingway’s interview with Plimpton is reprinted in Conversations with Ernest Hemingway edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. The list to which I refer is on page 118.
