Lately I had read with distaste various books written about myself by people who knew all about my inner life, aims and motives...All these people who wrote of my life both inner and outer wrote with an absolute assurance that I had never felt.
                                      -Ernest Hemingway in "the Africa book," unfinished manuscript written in mid-1950's, edited by Patrick Hemingway and published as True at First Light in 1999.