For Whom the Hemingway Headline Tolls

Edward Hemingway's latest children's book arrived this week.

EdwardHemingwayHow do you make the general subject matter of Ernest Hemingway jump out on a millennial’s smartphone? The New York Post’s clever gambit is to headline the item “Why Hemingway’s Grandson Will Never Grow a Beard.”

Does Edward Hemingway, a 47-year-old author based in Brooklyn (pictured), have some strange inability to grow facial hair? Was he traumatized at an early age by a crazy person with a face full of whiskers? Not quite:

“Relatives and Hemingway aficionados tell me that of [all] the grandchildren, I look the most like him,” he says.

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