`You`ve bollixed up my book`: letter reveals Hemingway`s fury at being censored
(The Guardian Books News)

The author threatened to ditch his British publisher, and likened him to a vicar, after his `Anglo-Saxon´ expressions were cleaned upThe hard-drinking, hot-tempered American writer Ernest Hemingway was furious when he discovered that the language for the English edition of his latest book had been cleaned up, a previously unpublished letter reveals. `I will make my own bloody decisions as to what I write and what I do not write,` he raged to his British publisher, adding that he did not want the book to be `bollixed up`.The fury within the lines of the letter would have left Jonathan Cape in no doubt of Hemingway´s feelings about editorial changes to his 1932 nonfiction book about bull-fighting, Death in the Afternoon. That those changes were made without his knowledge or permission left him all the more outraged. Continue reading...