Month: April 2016

Cuba

“C” day in the A to Z Challenge commences. My theme for the challenge is Ernest Miller Hemingway (EMH). Cuba was the locale where EMH lived for the longest time. After many trips to the island (fishing, writing) when he lived in Key West, EMH moved to Cuba with Martha Gellhorn in 1939. Gellhorn was…

A Link with Reference to EMH

Sundays are off days during the A to Z Challenge. Tomorrow’s post will be “C” day in the challenge. I am posting a link to Dallas radio station KERA 90.1’s podcast of Krys Boyd’s THINK show and her interview with the great novelist Yann Martel. I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did.…

Beach, Sylvia

One of the more important people in EMH’s early years in Paris was Sylvia Beach. She was the proprietress of Shakespeare and Company when it was on rue Dupuytrenat and later at 12, rue de l’Odéon on the Left Bank. Sylvia Beach opened her bookstore/lending library on November 17, 1919. EMH and Hadley arrived in…

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