Standard Biographies

Robert E. Hemenway, Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography (1977)

From the American National Biography entry on Ernest Hemingway: 

Several single-volume biographies exist, the most comprehensive but most general of which is Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (1969). Other useful one-volume biographies include Matthew Bruccoli, Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Dangerous Friendship (1994); Scott Donaldson, By Force of Will (1977); Kenneth Lynn, Hemingway (1987); James Mellow, Hemingway: A Life without Consequences (1992); and Jeffrey Meyers, Hemingway, a Biography (1985).