Did Hemingway Have a Favorite Wife? Hadley
Did Hemingway have a favorite wife? Of course he did despite each wife having suited him at the time he married each. Hemingway had four wives: Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn, and Mary Walsh. Of the four, three were from the St. Louis area. Only Mary was from elsewhere—Minnesota. Hadley was the great love […]
Is Hemingway making a Comeback?
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it. Ernest Hemingway Is it just me or are we seeing Hemingway everywhere? And don’t you have to “recede” […]
So You Think You Know Hemingway? Take My Trivia Test!
Real aficionados will find this so very easy but casual readers . . . not so much. Answers in a few days. 1) Which Hemingway novel(s) were made into movies (Check all applicable) The Sun Also Rises Old Man and the Sea For Whom the Bell Tolls A Farewell to Arms 2) Number of wives […]
Restoring the Finca Vigia outside Havana : Work to Begin
#HemingwayFincavigia #Hemingwaycuba Havana, Cuba (CNN)Ernest Hemingway’s home near Havana is expected to soon receive an infusion of badly needed building supplies from the United States. Before it is too late, actual collaboration between the U.S. and Cuba is happening regarding the restoration of Hemingway’s beloved Cuban home. He lived there for about twenty years. As mentioned […]
Hemingway Exhibit at the Morgan Library/Museum Sept ’15-Jan 31 ’16
#Hemingwayexhibit Ernest Hemingway was a maker of lists and a collector of his life’s ephemera. For the first time, some of the objects that this American writer gathered during his long career — bullfighting stubs from Pamplona in Spain, boastful fishing logs from expeditions off the Cuban coast, coy letters to a mistress, penciled drafts […]
My novel and Hemingway
Tell Me when It Hurts The first draft of anything is shit. Ernest Hemingway It is not my intent to “plug” my novels on this blog but once in a while it fits so I’ll write a bit about my first novel and Hemingway. My book is called Tell Me When It Hurts. La […]