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== Influence and legacy == [[File:Statue of Hemingway at Floridita.jpg|thumb|upright=.9|A life-sized statue of Hemingway by [[José Villa Soberón]] at [[El Floridita]], a bar in [[Havana]]]] Hemingway's legacy to American literature is his style: writers who came after him either emulated or avoided it.<ref>Oliver (1999), 140–141</ref> After his reputation was established with the publication of ''The Sun Also Rises'', he became the spokesperson for the post–World War I generation, having established a style to follow.<ref name="Nagel 1996 87" /> His books [[Nazi book burning|were burned]] in Berlin in 1933, "as being a monument of modern decadence", and disavowed by his parents as "filth".<ref name="Hallengren">{{Cite web|title=A Case of Identity: Ernest Hemingway |first=Anders |last=Hallengren|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1954/hemingway/article/|access-date=January 4, 2023|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US}}</ref> Reynolds asserts the legacy is that "[Hemingway] left stories and novels so starkly moving that some have become part of our cultural heritage."<ref>Reynolds (2000), 15</ref> Benson believes the details of Hemingway's life have become a "prime vehicle for exploitation", resulting in a Hemingway industry.<ref>Benson (1989), 347</ref> The Hemingway scholar {{interlanguage link|Anders Hallengren|lt=Hallengren|sv}} believes the "hard-boiled style" and the machismo must be separated from the author himself.<ref name="Hallengren" /> Benson agrees, describing him as introverted and private as [[J. D. Salinger]], although Hemingway masked his nature with braggadocio.<ref>Benson (1989), 349</ref> During World War II, Salinger met and corresponded with Hemingway, whom he acknowledged as an influence. In a letter to Hemingway, Salinger claimed their talks "had given him his only hopeful minutes of the entire war" and jokingly "named himself national chairman of the Hemingway Fan Clubs".<ref>Baker (1969), 420</ref> In 2002, a fossil [[billfish]] from the [[Danata Formation]] of [[Turkmenistan]] was named ''[[Hemingwaya]]'' after Hemingway, who prominently featured a [[marlin]] in ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ellis |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JC-Ygl35oHoC |title=Swordfish: A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator |date=2013-04-15 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-92292-8 |language=en}}</ref> Mary Hemingway established the Hemingway Foundation in 1965, and in the 1970s, she donated her husband's papers to the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum|John F. Kennedy Library]]. In 1980, a group of Hemingway scholars gathered to assess the donated papers, subsequently forming the Hemingway Society, "committed to supporting and fostering Hemingway scholarship", publishing ''The Hemingway Review''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Leadership |url=https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/society-leadership |website=The Hemingway Society |access-date=May 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418040602/https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/society-leadership |archive-date=April 18, 2021 |date=April 18, 2021 |quote=Carl Eby Professor of English Appalachian State University, President (2020–2022); Gail Sinclair Rollins College, Vice President and Society Treasurer (2020–2022); Verna Kale The Pennsylvania State University, Ernest Hemingway Foundation Treasurer (2018–2020);}}</ref> His granddaughter [[Margaux Hemingway]] was a supermodel and actress and co-starred with her younger sister [[Mariel Hemingway|Mariel]] in the 1976 movie ''[[Lipstick (1976 film)|Lipstick]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-08-21-me-36349-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |title=Margaux Hemingway's Death Ruled a Suicide |last=Rainey |first=James |date=August 21, 1996 |access-date=April 1, 2016 |archive-date=January 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116123700/http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-21/local/me-36349_1_margaux-hemingway |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Holloway|first=Lynette|date=July 3, 1996|title=Margaux Hemingway Is Dead; Model and Actress Was 41|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/03/arts/margaux-hemingway-is-dead-model-and-actress-was-41.html|access-date=January 4, 2023|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Her death was later ruled a death by suicide.<ref>{{Cite news|agency=Associated Press|date=August 21, 1996|title=Coroner Says Death of Actress Was Suicide|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/21/us/coroner-says-death-of-actress-was-suicide.html|access-date=January 4, 2023|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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