"The Sun Also Rises...is magnificent writing."
-The New York Times
"Because Hemingway loved the American language and the joy of writing...he was in many ways the true father-as-artist of so many of us who came to writing during the late thirties."
-Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
"When Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises, he shot a fist in the face of the false romantic-realists and said: 'You can't fake about life like that. '...[Hemingway] has most excellently quickened and enlarged my experience of social life."
-Claude McKay, author of A Long Way from Home
"Hemingway exemplified the spirit of America in the 1920s more vividly than any other contemporary American novelist."
-Wallace Thurman, author of Infants of the Spring