While the man the world knows as ‘Papa’ balanced the demands of parenting with his work, his letters and fiction offer a window into the depth of his paternal feeling.
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L Stanton Williams 1941 Professor of American Studies and English, Amherst College
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Professor of History, University of Alabama
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Associate Research Professor of English, Penn State
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Heiko A. Oberman Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History, University of Arizona