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 each is different in kind from the other.” {{sfn|Benson|1989|pp=358}} This is an important point in interpreting the work of each author. Writing about Hemingway, but applicable, I would argue, also to Fitzgerald and Mailer, Benson says this:
-{{quote| Out of his emotions and needs, as well as out of a conscious s desire to create and win approval, the author projects, transforms,
+{{quote| Out of his emotions and needs, as well as out of a conscious s desire to create and win approval, the author projects, transforms, exaggerates, and a drama emerges which is based on his life but which has only a very tenuous relationship to the situation, in its facts, that might be observed from the outside. That is to say, he writes out of his life, not about his life. So that one can say, yes, Hemingway’s life is relevant to his fiction, but only relevant in the way that a dream might be relevant to the emotional stress that might have produced it.{{sfn|Benson|1989|pp=350}} }}
-exaggerates, and a drama emerges which is based on his life but
-which has only a very tenuous relationship to the situation, in its
-facts, that might be observed from the outside. That is to say, he
-writes out of his life, not about his life. So that one can say, yes,
-Hemingway’s life is relevant to his fiction, but only relevant in
-the way that a dream might be relevant to the emotional stress
-that might have produced it.{{sfn|Benson|1989|pp=350}} }}
 Benson has warned us of the dangers of the biographical fallacy.