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2 unusual facts about Hemingway


Chaloklowa Chickasaw

The Chaloklowa Chickasaws are headquartered in Hemingway, South Carolina and are led by Chief Vernon Tanner and Vice-Chief Joe Tanner.

Hemingway: On the Edge

Hemingway: On the Edge is a one-man show about the life of Ernest Hemingway performed since 1987 by Ed Metzger, and is written by Metzger and his wife Laya Gelff-Metzger.


88 Poems

It includes a number of poems published in magazines, the poems which appeared in Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems, and 47 previously unpublished poems that were found in private collections and in the Hemingway papers held by the Kennedy Library.

A Very Short Story

Hemingway based the story on his World War I affair with a nurse he met in Milan while recuperating in the hospital from leg injuries sustained at the Italian front.

Alison Wheeler

After working on Hemingway's as yet unreleased solo album, Hemingway promised a recommendation to the Beautiful South's driving force, Paul Heaton, since a new album was in the making, despite the unexpected departure of former band member Jacqui Abbott.

Antonio Ordóñez

Hemingway wrote an account of Ordóñez's rivalry with the matador Luis Miguel Dominguin (also Ordóñez's brother-in-law) titled The Dangerous Summer.

Bar bet

The film To Have and Have Not is supposedly the result of bar bet between Ernest Hemingway and Howard Hawks, with Hemingway betting Hawks that Hawks couldn't make a good film from Hemingway's worst novel.

Bay Township, Michigan

Bay Township's central village, Horton Bay, was featured in several of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories including "The End of Something".

Big Two-Hearted River

In January 1925, while wintering in Schruns, Austria, waiting for a response from query letters written to friends and publishers in America, Hemingway submitted the story to be published in his friend Ernest Walsh's newly established literary magazine This Quarter.

Charles T. Lanham

Hemingway was doing battlefield stories for the American audience for Collier's and sought assignment with Lanham's regiment.

Coffee with... Biographies

Some titles include "Coffee With Marilyn"(Marilyn Monroe), "Coffee With Groucho" (Groucho Marx), "Coffee With The Buddha", "Coffee With Hemingway" (Ernest Hemingway), and many more selections.

Compleat Angler Hotel

In addition to Ernest Hemingway, additional notable visitors have included Lucille Ball, singer and writer Jimmy Buffett, and Colorado senator Gary Hart, whose presidential aspirations were sunken in 1987 when compromising photographs were released of him at the lodge with a woman who was not his wife.

Dateline: Toronto

Bullfighting would become a major motif in Hemingway's writing, appearing in The Sun Also Rises and Death in the Afternoon.

David O'Neil

O'Neil and his wife Barbara were close friends of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley, who had known O'Neil from St. Louis, and Hemingway wrote an acidulous sketch based on O'Neil.

Dingo Bar

Charters' "↓This Must Be the Place; Memoirs of Montparnasse" was published in 1934, edited by Morrill Cody with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway, republished 1937, then 1989.

Donald Ogden Stewart

He was friends with Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, and Ernest Hemingway (he was the model for Bill Gorton in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises).

Eggs Benedict

Eggs Atlantic, Eggs Hemingway, or Eggs Copenhagen (also known as Eggs Royale and Eggs Montreal in New Zealand) substitutes salmon (or smoked salmon) for the ham.

Elevator Repair Service

For the third play, based on The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (first published 1927), ERS created an edited version of the story using Hemingway's dialogue and some of his prose.

Fifty Grand

According to Philip G. and Rosemary R. Davies, Hemingway seems to have based the story on the 1 November 1922 welterweight championship fight between Jack Britton and Mickey Walker.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

In a 1992 letter to Canadian humorist John Robert Colombo, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke recounts it thus: While lunching with friends at a restaurant (variously identified as Luchow's or The Algonquin), Hemingway bets the table ten dollars each that he can craft an entire story in six words.

For Whom the Beat Tolls

For Whom the Beat Tolls (a play on the Ernest Hemingway novel 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', which itself is drawn from "Meditation XVII" of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, a series of essays by metaphysical poet John Donne) is the eighth studio album by rapper Canibus, released through Mic Club Music on May 29, 2007 in the United States and June 5 worldwide.

Giada Trebeschi

From very early stage she was a ravenous reader and her father encouraged this attitude feeding her hunger with many different genres so that at the age of twelve she already had read, among others, Hemingway’s The old man and the sea, nearly all Emilio Salgari and Jules Verne novels, Dumas’s The Three Musketeers and Italo Calvino’s The Cloven Viscount, The nonexistent Knight and The Baron in the Trees.

Hadley Richardson

In 1925 Hadley learned Hemingway was involved with another woman, Pauline Pfeiffer, and she divorced him the following year.

Hemingway decided to use Anderson's letters of introduction, and that spring Ezra Pound invited him and Hadley for tea.

Hemingway House

Ernest Hemingway House, Key West, Florida, NRHP-listed, also known as Hemingway House & Museum

Iceberg Theory

In other words, a story can communicate by subtext; for instance, Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" does not mention the word "abortion", although in the story the male character seems to be attempting to convince his girlfriend to have an abortion.

John Fentress Gardner

He was married to Carol Hemingway Gardner, who was Ernest Hemingway's youngest sister.

Juha K. Tapio

Tapio's novel begins in Paris in the 1920s, where two American expatriate writers, Gertrud Stein and Ernst Hemingway (the misspelling of the names is intentional) come across a strange manuscript, which appears to be a diary written by the monster created by Victor Frankenstein.

Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru

The title is a play on Ernest Hemingway's famous novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Kathleen Eaton Cannell

In A Farewell to Arms Hemingway based the character Helen Ferguson on Kitty, and also the character Frances Clyne in The Sun Also Rises, although she denied this, but a reading of her letters to Loeb indicates strong parallels with the story.

Marij Pregelj

He won the Levstik Award for his illustrations three times: in 1949 for his illustrations of France Bevk's collection of stories Otroška leta (My Childhood Years), in 1957 for Jack London's White Fang (Slovene title: Beli očnjak) and in 1959 for Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (Slovene title: Starec in morje).

Martha Gellhorn

While married to Hemingway, Gellhorn had an affair with US paratrooper Major General James M. Gavin, commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division.

She and Hemingway lived together off and on for four years, before marrying in December 1940 (Hemingway also lived with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, until 1939).

Maxim Kantor

Maxim Kantor can most properly be defined "the Artist of the Existential Realism" since he proclaims that his philosophical roots are Sartre, Camus, Beckett and Hemingway.

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

In a random twist of events, Palin pops up in the Florida Keys and sees a Hemingway look-alike contest at the local restaurant in Key West.

Modelo Brewery

Hemingway was a frequent patron of the brewery since it was located next to his home in Havana at Finca Vigía.

Nasty Gal

Contributors and photographers for the magazine's first issue include Terry Richardson, Hugh Lippe, Jeff Hahn, Alexandra Richards, Syd tha Kyd, Langley Hemingway, and Girls writer Lesley Arfin.

Northwest Passage Light

It is known locally as the "Hemingway house on the water", or "Hemingway Stilts", based on a legend that Ernest Hemingway used to own or, at least, fish from the structure.

Pfeiffer House and Carriage House

The Hemingway-Pfeiffer House, also known as the Pfeiffer House and Carriage House, is a house in Piggott, Arkansas where novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote portions of his novel, A Farewell to Arms.

Rubber Soul Project

Together, they started their Belgrade Tour '99 which was stopped by the NATO bombing of Belgrade, but the band held concerts at the British Council Cultural Centre (16 March), the Center for Cultural Decontamination (on 19 March), Hemingway Club in Zemun (on 21 March), and the Museum of Yugoslav Kinotheque (on 23 March).

Spain in Flames

Later, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Lillian Hellman and others founded the company Contemporary Historians, which produced another film called The Spanish Earth (1937), directed by Joris Ivens and edited by van Dongen.

The Age of Miracles

She commented that the album's title track reflects on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, while the album's seventh track ("Mrs. Hemingway") is about the first wife of author Ernest Hemingway.

The Hemingway Hoax

Seventy-five years later in 1996, John Baird, a Hemingway scholar (and possessed of a completely eidetic memory), is persuaded by Sylvester "Castle" Castlemaine, a grifter in Key West, to create a fake manuscript to be passed off as one of the lost copies.

The Jew of Malta

It is also quoted in Ernest Hemingway's 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees, as well as referred to in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.

True at First Light

Two books have been published from the African book manuscript: True at First Light, edited by Patrick Hemingway, and Under Kilimanjaro, edited by scholars Robert Lewis and Robert Fleming.


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