Ernest Hemingway

Spain’s civil war lasted for nearly three years and sent a half million refugees into exile. For Hemingway, the fight against General Francisco Franco became a cause of utmost importance.

D T Max article on Ernest Hemingway's misadventures in Cuba in 1940's, based on newly-available papers explaining period when he left literary world and isolated himself from anyone who knew him as he really was; tells of self-imposed exile when Hemingway confused his fantasy self, man of action, with his real self, man who wrote about action, and embarked on parody of his previous wartime adventures as World War II heated up around him; photo; describes Finca Vigia, home outside Havana that is run by Cuban Government as shrine to Papa (M)

En Español Spring 2006, Vol. 38, No. 1 By Thomas Putnam Researchers come to the Hemingway archives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library primarily to examine Ernest Hemingway's original manuscripts and his correspondence with family, friends, and fellow writers. But upon entering, it is hard not to notice the artifacts that ornament the Hemingway Room—including a mounted

From writing haunts to favorite bars, follow the ex-pat author's steps through Paris

Before he was a big game hunter, before he was a deep-sea fisherman, Ernest Hemingway was a craftsman who would rise very early in the morning and write. His best stories are masterpieces of the modern era, and his prose style is one of the most influential of the 20th century.

1. Use simple language and simple sentences.  Consider the opening lines of A Farewell to Arms: "In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white…

Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest authors, and drinkers, in American history. Here's how you can drink like one of the greats.

Ernest Hemingway ruminates on his love for alcohol in a letter to a friend.

Fidel Castro's recent death has stirred up old memories of the many ways he antagonized members of the American establishment, from Dwight D. Eisenhower to

In 1959, a young journalist (Giovanni Ribisi, “Saving Private Ryan”) ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol: the legendary Ernest Hemingway, who helped hi...

Robert Manning, the executive editor of The Atlantic, looks back on his 1954 visit with the Nobel Prize–winning author.

The moods of Ernest Hemingway.