008 One of Ours

As of November 19, 2018, the entry for Willa Cather's 1923 novel One of Ours mentions that Hemingway once deprecated the realism of its war scenes in a letter to Edmund Wilson, saying that Cather had lifted these sequences from Birth of a Nation. It does not add, however, that Hemingway included the same observation in his first published "novel" -- the forgettable heavy-handed parody of Sherwood Anderson The Torrents of Spring: "Like this American writer Willa Cather," the passage reads, "who wrote a book about the war where all the last part of it was taken from the action in Birth of a Nation."