“Up in Michigan” is one of the three stories published in Three Stories and Ten Poems, that first book of EMH’s works published in 1923. This short story is set in Horton Bay, Michigan, an area very familiar to the author. Throughout his early life, the Hemingway family spent their summers in northern Michigan each year…
Three Stories and Ten Poems: This book published in 1923 was EMH’s first published book. The book was only 58 pages and only 300 copies were printed. Robert McAlmon‘s Contact Publishing Company in Paris published the short book that established EMH’s reputation and style. EMH sent a copy to Edmund Wilson and Wilson gave the…
Maria Sans is said to be EMH’s inspiration for the character of Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls, published n 1943. I never noticed anyone talk about or mention her until she died in 2012 at the age of 91. Ms. Sans supposedly met EMH during the Spanish Civil War when she was volunteering as…
Today is “R” Day in the A to Z Challenge and my theme is Ernest Miller Hemingway (EMH). Like any great author, EMH spent much time revising and rewriting his drafts. Some advice from EMH: Don’t get discouraged because there’s a lot of mechanical work to writing. There is, and you can’t get out of…
From A Moveable Feast: If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in…
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