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Fitzgerald & Hemingway

Is it true that F. Scott helped Hemingway shape the beginning of THE SUN ALSO RISES by focusing on the character of Robert Cohn? I was told that Hemingway was at the end of his rope and that Fitzgerald took the time out to both edit the manuscript and reshape it for dramatic impact. When it was Hemingway's turn to repay the favor, he apparently refused to read Fitzgerald's second draft of THE GREAT GATSBY. I wonder if Hemingway and Fitzgerald are slugging it out in literary heaven right now.