Favorite: The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway “I’d somehow managed to avoid reading Hemingway until my early 30s, when I was first beginning to write. I’d always thought he was ‘not for me’—i’m not white, I’m not a man, I’ve never stalked a lion, I haven’t been to war. And yet, as soon as I began to read him, I could not stop.”