Hemingway: The American Homecoming (Blackwell, 1992)
Hemingway: The 1930s (Norton, 1997)
Hemingway: The Final Years (Norton, 1999)
Reynolds studied Hemingway in a meticulous way, cataloguing the details of his life. His doctoral thesis at Duke University became his first book, Hemingway’s First War. This showed that Hemingway likewise did not just write from personal experience, as commonly supposed, but also did detailed research for his writing.[4]
^James Plath (2000), "Reconstructing Hemingway: An Interview with Biographer Michael S. Reynolds", North Carolina Literary Review (9), University of North Carolina Press: 69