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John W. Aldridge

Biography

Iowa-born literary critic John W. Aldridge held a degree from Berkeley and was a professor of English at the University of Michigan. His reviews long appeared in publications like the New York Times, Harper’s, and Playboy.

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CRITICISM

“A work of distinctly minor Hemingway fiction.”

By John W. Aldridge

Our 1953 review of “The Old Man and the Sea,” in hindsight.

Spring 1953

About Ernest Hemingway

By John W. Aldridge
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