In “Shaping the Life: Hemingway Biographies Since 2000,” Kirk Curnutt argues that between roughly 1999 and 2016 Hemingway biography eschewed full, cradle-to-grave accounts of the subject’s life in favor of narrower, more up-close-and-personal examinations of specific periods and specific relationships. Within these depictions are questions of subjectivity and slanted presentation, such as Stephen Koch’s rampant use of free indirect discourse, a technique associated with fiction, in his account of Hemingway’s fractured friendship with John Dos Passos over the 1937 execution of Jose Robles. Curnutt weighs Koch’s prejudicial presentation against more balanced efforts by Amanda Vaill, Steve Paul, Paul Hendrickson, James McGrath Morris, and others, including such family members as his son John Hemingway and former personal secretary Valerie Hemingway. Assessed in detail are three complete biographies by James M. Hutchisson, Verna Kale, and Mary V. Dearborn. Here Curnutt explores how each biography markets itself as a “new” life of Hemingway when sensational discoveries in the archives that marked the 1980s have long been exhausted.