Between Two Wars: First-Ever Exhibition Of The Life And Writings of Ernest Hemingway

Artfixdaily.com offers a piece on the exhibition on Ernest Hemingway at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City.

In July 1918, Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was serving as a volunteer with the Red Cross on the Italian Front during World War I when he was seriously wounded by mortar fire. He was just eighteen.

Later he would write, “When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you ... Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen.”

Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars is the first museum exhibition devoted to one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. His direct, spare style influenced successive generations of authors around the world. And tens of millions would read his books and never forget the stories and characters in such masterpieces as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea.

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http://www.artfixdaily.com/calendar/details/1784-first-ever-exhibition-of-the-life-and-writings-of-ernest-hemingwa

Hemingway's Tropical Retreats Reflect His Adventures

Patricia Sheridan at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette offers a piece on Ernest Hemingway's tropical homes in Key West, Florida and Cuba.

KEY WEST, Fla. / HAVANA, Cuba — Ernest Hemingway spent a lifetime cultivating a masculine image and personas. War correspondent, cigar lover, big game hunter, deep sea fisherman, boxer, liberal with liquor, minimalist with words -- all done to maximum effect. Predictably, evidence of his adventures fills the writer’s two tropical homes in Key West and Havana. Hunting and fishing trophies stare down from the walls in nearly every room, as well as photos of his exploits and famous friends. He was a legend in his own time, and movie posters from his books such as “A Farewell to Arms” and “For Whom The Bell Tolls” that were made into films adorn the walls. But it’s the spirit of the other kind of trophy he collected, his wives, that helps to distinguish his island retreats.

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http://www.post-gazette.com/life/travel/2014/06/16/Hemingway-s-Tropical-Retreats/stories/201406160002

Note: I've visited the Hemingway home in Key West and I hope to visit Hemingway's Cuban home once the Castro brothers are dead and the Cuban people are free of communism.

Looking Back At Hemingway's Time In Idaho

 

Ashley Smith at the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho looks back on the time the late great writer Ernest Hemingway spent in Idaho.

Every Hemingway fan knows the story of how the author came to Sun Valley for the first time in September 1939, invited to represent the outdoors appeal of the resort in promotional material. Fans make the pilgrimage to Room 206 at the lodge where he wrote part of his novel, “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”

But the stories that don’t appear in biographies or the documentaries are the brief interactions that happened next to creeks and in fields near Shoshone and Hagerman and Twin Falls, where Hemingway met fellow bird hunters and lovers of the outdoors.

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http://magicvalley.com/news/local/looking-back-at-hemingway-s-time-in-idaho/article_a1f451bb-e490-59f3-90ac-c875b6599ffd.html

Hemingway's Spanish 'Muse' Dies Aged 91

Fiona Govan at the British newspaper the Telegraph reports on the death of a woman who may have been the model for Ernest Hemingway's female character in his classic novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Maria Sans met the American writer when she was working in a field hospital as a volunteer nurse tending wounded members of the International Brigades during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War.

...Miss Sans is thought to have been the inspiration behind the character of Maria in Hemingway's acclaimed novel, a role played by Ingrid Bergman opposite Gary Cooper in the 1943 Hollywood adaptation of the book.  

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9312106/Ernest-Hemingways-muse-dies-aged-91.html