When EMH was younger and going to see the corrida de toros (bullfights) in various cities in Spain, one of these cities was Zaragoza, the capital city of Aragon. This city has a basilica and shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary called Our Lady of the Pillar (Pilar in Spanish). Mary was said to have…
One of my favorite stories related to EMH is how a young man, Arnold Samuelson, showed up on the writer’s doorstep in Key West after hitchhiking across the country. Samuelson was a writer (but really just a 22-year-old hobo) and wanted to talk to EMH and get his advice. So Samuelson showed up at the house…
I found an article in the Hemingway Review written by Andrew Feldman and published in the Fall 2011 edition of the journal entitled “Leopoldina Rodríguez: Hemingway’s Cuban Lover?” EMH was friends with and used the services of prostitutes when he lived in Cuba. EMH had nicknames for people (besides for himself) and he was friends…
Waldo Peirce remained friends with EMH until Hemingway died in 1961 after meeting in Paris in 1926 or 1927. He was one of the few people who EMH remained in contact with from the Paris days. Peirce was born in Bangor, Maine in 1885 and died in 1970 at 85 years old. He graduated from…
Henry Serrano Villard was born in 1900 to two prominent families of New York. He, like EMH, decided to volunteer in the ambulance service in Italy during the Great War. Villard was suffering from malaria and was jaundiced and he and EMH were both in the same hospital together in Milan. Villard was friends with EMH and nurse…
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