Dr. Verna Kale is Assistant Research Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University and Associate Editor of the Cambridge Edition of "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway." She is the author of a critical biography, "Ernest Hemingway" (Reaktion/Univ. of Chicago Press, 2016), editor of "Teaching Hemingway and Gender" (Kent State University Press, 2016), and has contributed to The Hemingway Review and The Journal of Popular Culture.