"One object on display is far more consequential: a piece of shrapnel. Had Hemingway not been injured in that attack, he not may have fallen in love with his Red Cross nurse, a romance that served as the genesis of A Farewell to Arms" archives.gov/publications/p…
"He’d been an awkward lad and was only beginning to grow out of the gangling period into the extraordinary handsomeness and charismatic vitality of his young manhood. Agnes, on the other hand, was 26, and knew something of the world." vqronline.org/essay/jilting-…
When I was 19, I lived on a tiny island in Colombia breaking people out of jail. On the beach I read and reread Hemingway's "Men Without Women", the story that showed his mastery of eliminating words. "Hills Like White Elephants is incredible. Have a read.faculty.weber.edu/jyoung/English…
"He was 45 years of age and already physically bearing the effects of what some might call hard living. Hemingway had no business covering the war at such a close range, August, 1944, short story, “A Room on the Garden Side,”strandmag.com/revisiting-par…
"Ernest Hemingway’s last decade on Earth started, in 1950, with The New York Times labeling the American novelist as the greatest writer since Shakespeare." vanityfair.com/style/2018/08/…
"According to CNN, Hemingway sent a batch of stories to his publisher at some point after this story was written saying the stories were “boring” and that the publisher could “always publish them after I’m dead.”
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I published my first autobiography at 2000 at age 45 and that was the less interesting part of my life. I am not a perfectionist nor am I a good writer but I do focus on living. Hemingway killed himself at 57. The lesson? Focus on living. amazon.com/Adventurist-My…
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