One important difference between Hemingway and Capstick: Hemingway's genre was fiction. Although he was a larger than life human being, his enduring fame rests on what he was: a writer of fiction. Capstick claimed to be relating his own adventures, which means his enduring fame rests on what he was not. His books would not have sold had he not claimed to have been something he wasn't. Good writer or bad writer, wishing he was Selous or Bell or Corbett does not make it so.