Article: BOOKMAKING

Robert Taylor is the retired chief book critic of the

Globe.

Ernest Hemingway's first novel might have been "The Son-in-Law," in which he planned to pillory Harry Comfort Hindmarsh, the assistant managing editor of the Toronto Star. A whip-cracking editor of the old and unlamented school, Hindmarsh, whose father-in-law was Star publisher Joseph Atkinson, had been riding Hemingway mercilessly since the latter returned from Europe in September 1923, and Hemingway was fed up with rattling the bars in the zoo-like atmosphere of the Star's city room.

"Hemingway: The Toronto Years," by William Burrill (Doubleday Canada) not only presents this phase of the author's career in detail but ...

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