‘The Sun Also Rises’ at 100: Women are now leaders in Hemingway scholarship Hilary K
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP national writer, November 13, 2026, 9:00 PM
NEW YORK —
Hilary K. Justice, an [ or a ] Ernest Hemingway scholar at Boston’s John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, remembers having to defend her chosen field of expertise as a graduate student some 30 years ago.
“I was told that studying Hemingway amounted to committing professional suicide — ‘Haven’t we killed him yet?’ was the comment of one professor in my PhD program,” she said in a recent interview.
“I used to be able to count on being asked ‘How do you, as a woman, justify studying Hemingway?’ at every Q&A session at every public speaking event.”
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This year marks the centennial of Hemingway’s classic breakout novel, “The Sun Also Rises,” an occasion for scholars and fans to celebrate his work — and express relief that his outsized legend has receded enough that his books can stand or fall on their own. Hemingway died more than 60 years ago, and at least a generation of students has come of age knowing little about the man who for countless predecessors embodied the very ideal — or anti-ideal — of the writing life: the macho adventurer, drinker and womanizer who once famously defined courage as “grace under pressure.”
At a centennial event last month at the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center in Manhattan, Maya Hawke, Will Harrison, Sarah Pidgeon and other actors read from “The Sun Also Rises,” and a panel discussion featured “Bright Lights, Big City” novelist Jay McInerney and a handful of Hemingway descendants. Grandson Brendan Hemingway, a teenager during the rise of second-wave feminism in the 1970s, spoke of female classmates approaching him in high school hallways just to tell him how much they despised the author.
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