Dateline: Toronto - Dateline: Toronto

The collection Dateline: Toronto contains 172 articles that Hemingway wrote for the Star. At the time of the collection's publication, in 1985, it was believed to contain the complete works of Ernest Hemingway for the Star.

Determining which stories Hemingway wrote, however, was not a straightforward task. In the 1920s, it was common for newspaper stories to run without crediting the author. Of the stories in the collection, only 137 were bylined Ernest M. Hemingway (Hemingway did not stop using his middle initial until later in his career). The rest of the stories had either no byline, or occasionally pseudonyms if Hemingway already had one story in the paper.

In researching Hemingway's career for the Centennial of the Toronto Star, reporter William Burrill uncovered evidence of 30 additional stories that Hemingway had written for the Toronto Star, but had been either missed by earlier researchers, published without Hemingway's bylines, or published under such bylines as "Peter Jackson" or "John Hadley", which were known Hemingway pseudonyms already identified in White's collection When Hemingway had returned from Europe, his editor possibly punished him by refusing to allow him bylines, but many of the stories identified by Burrill had evidence pointing to Hemingway's authorship. (Most of these additional "lost" stories can be found in William Burrill's book "Hemingway, The Toronto Years" a 392-page award-winning biography that also fully reprints 25 of the "lost" Hemingway stories in Burrill's 135-page Appendix. (Doubleday Canada, Hardcover 1994, ISBN 0-385-25489-X and Trade Paper 1995, ISBN 0-385-25558-6). Furthermore, Burrill points out that the Toronto Star archives only maintained copies of the final edition of the newspaper; Hemingway may have written stories that fell out of the final edition and as such his complete works for the Toronto Star may never be known.

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