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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint from the letter of Ernest Hemingway to MacKinlay Kantor dated May 16, 1952. Copyright © Hemingway Foreign Rights Trust. Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Frontispiece photograph by Tim Kantor. Photograph of John M. Kantor (here) courtesy Baltimore Sun. All other photographs are from the author’s personal collection.
eBook ISBN: 9780698194267
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Shroder, Tom, author.
Title: The most famous writer who ever lived : a true story of my family / Tom Shroder.
Description: New York : Blue Rider Press, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016016448 | ISBN 9780399174599 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Kantor, MacKinlay, 1904–1977. | Kantor, MacKinlay, 1904–1977—Family. | Authors, American—20th century—Biography. | Authors, American—20th century—Family relationships. | Shroder, Tom—Family. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Classification: LCC PS3521.A47 Z84 2016 | DDC 813/.52 [B] —dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016016448
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