Since the attacks in Paris last Friday, one book has been selling out in bookshops across the city: Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast.The author’s account of living in Paris in his youth is seen as a love letter to the city, its cafes and bars, and the Parisian way of life.In French its title is translated as “Paris est une fête”, or “Paris is a party”.
Source: Ernest Hemingway’s ode to Paris sells out – BBC News
Ernest Hemingway’s homage to Paris – “A Moveable Feast” – has hit the best-seller lists in France after an elderly woman sang the book’s praises during an impassioned TV interview that went viral.Among the heaps of flowers and thousands of candles at the sites of last week’s shootings, some Parisians are leaving copies of “A Moveable Feast”, a 1964 novel by American author Ernest Hemingway.
Source: Hemingway’s Paris ode becomes unity symbol – The Local
From the gentle heights behind the house, over the tops of tropical trees, you can see the modest skyline of Havana and the blue sea beyond, fading into sky.
That vista gave this homestead its name: Finca Vigía — Lookout Farm. This is where American author Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote from 1939 to 1960.
It’s a one-story, cream-colored, stucco villa built in the 1880s — not big, just comfortable, the kind of easygoing place that would suit a hillside in Italy’s Tuscany as well as it does this one in Cuba.
via Papa Hemingway’s comfortable, easygoing homestead in Cuba – LA Times.
They were the first great celebrities among American writers. The glamorous F. Scott Fitzgerald — with his even more glamorous wife Zelda at his side — became the most dazzling icon of the Jazz Age, only to be eclipsed by his alpha-male frenemy Ernest Hemingway, the world’s most famous author for much of the mid-20th century.
Reporters followed them everywhere, and their often bumbling private lives were the stuff of every tabloid editor’s dreams.
Scott and Zelda, Ernest and — well, a lot of women: We still can’t get enough of them. Biographies keep being issued. Movies such as Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris luxuriate in the nostalgia of the so-called Lost Generation of writers and artists pursuing la vie boheme in the 1920s and ’30s.
via Novels feast on Hemingway, Fitzgerald, their wives.
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“Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and began his writing career as a newspaperman in Kansas City at the age of 17. His experiences in Europe informed his early novels. Hemingway served with a volunteer ambulance unit in the Alps in World War I, lived in Paris for much of the 1920s, and reported on the Greek Revolution and the civil war in Spain. His sense of these events resulted in The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), and, some think his greatest novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Hemingway divided his time in much of the 1930s and 1940s between Key West, Florida and Cuba. He was an avid outdoorsman whose interest in such sports as hunting, fishing, and bull fighting were reflected in his novels and short stories. In Key West and Cuba, Hemingway discovered a passion for big-game fishing that would inspire him for the remainder of his life and that prompted his outstanding short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1951). This photograph, taken in Key West in the 1940s, shows Hemingway with a sailfish he had caught. Many of his novels, short stories, and his nonfiction work are classics of American literature, distinctive for their understatement, spare prose, and authentic characterization.”
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via Portrait of Author Ernest Hemingway Posing with Sailfish – World Digital Library.
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