Papa Hemingway

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Here’s a photo I haven’t seen before…it shows Hemingway with Langston Hughes, Michael Koltyov and Nicolas Guillen.  It is part of the Langston Hughes collection and it says it was taken in Madrid in 1937, but I’ll have to do some further research to confirm that.  

Here’s a photo I haven’t seen before…it shows Hemingway with Langston Hughes, Michael Koltyov and Nicolas Guillen.  It is part of the Langston Hughes collection and it says it was taken in Madrid in 1937, but I’ll have to do some further research to confirm that.  

An interesting color photo of Hemingway looking not completely comfortable.

An interesting color photo of Hemingway looking not completely comfortable.

The good parts of a book may be something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life, and one is as good as the other.

—In a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1929

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world, or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out thin.

—Ernest Hemingway to his mother in law, Mrs. Paul Pfeiffer, 1933.

Ernest Hemingway with his lion.  

Ernest Hemingway with his lion.  

Some great footage of Hemingway in his later years.