When Ernest Hemingway committed suicide in 1961 he left four unfinished
works--A Moveable Feast, Islands in the Stream, The Garden of Eden, and
an untitled work on his travels in Africa. The edited versions that have
come down to readers and scholars of Hemingway appear as distinct,
disjointed texts that fit oddly into his oeuvre. Through extensive
literary detective work Burwell has uncovered substantial evidence that
Hemingway in fact designed the three published works as a trilogy, what
she terms "his own Portrait of the Artist."