"...history suggests that Hemingway copped his style from the writers who came up in The Pulps: James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and my personal favorite, Jim Thompson."
Two minutes of Googling suggests that Cain didn't publish his first novel until 1934, after Hemingway was already a literary heavyweight. Both Chandler and Thompson got going even later, in the '40s.
29/9/2012 19:52
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"...history suggests that Hemingway copped his style from the writers who came up in The Pulps: James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and my personal favorite, Jim Thompson."
Two minutes of Googling suggests that Cain didn't publish his first novel until 1934, after Hemingway was already a literary heavyweight. Both Chandler and Thompson got going even later, in the '40s.
Who's factchecking?