Thursday, June 30, 2011

'Papa' Hemingway Still Casts A Long Shadow


Craig Wilson at USA TODAY writes that on the anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's death, Hemingway is still with us.

Hemingway has been called many things. Dull isn't one of them.

The Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author died 50 years ago this weekend, killing himself at 61 (on July 2, 1961) with a gunshot, a violent end to what can only be described as a turbulent, hard-driving and over-the-top life. Four wives, seven novels, six short-story collections and enough booze to float his beloved boat, Pilar. Throw in a few bullfights for good measure.

Not that he's really dead.

This summer he's "co-starring" in a hit movie, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris; plays a major role in a best-selling novel, The Paris Wife by Paula McLain; and is the subject a number of other new books, including Hemingway's Boat, which follows the writer's life on his 38-foot motor yacht, out in September. There's even a laugh-out-loud parody, just published, called The Heming Way.

You can read the rest of the story via the below link:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-06-29-ernest-hemingway-death_n.htm

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