hemingway

     

Hemingway is a surname of English origin & may refer to:

Trivia about hemingway

  • While he was in Spain in 1959, he wrote "The Dangerous Summer", a story about rival bullfighters
  • "Green Hills of Africa","A Moveable Feast","The Nick Adams Stories"
  • While serving as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in World War I, he was wounded in Italy
  • His story "The Undefeated" tells of Manuel Garcia, a bullfighter just released from the hospital who refuses to retire
  • His "A Moveable Feast" calls Fitzgerald's talent as natural as the pattern of the dust on a butterfly's wings
  • It was partly at the suggestion of fellow writer John Dos Passos that he moved to Key West, Florida in 1928
  • He reported from the Spanish Civil War & used his experiences in his novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
  • This macho author's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" tells of a couple on safari in Kenya
  • The Cuban mission known as Lookout Farm, or Finca Vigia, was home to this author from 1939 to 1960
  • Key West, Florida has a Lighthouse & Keeper's Museum & a museum devoted to this novelist
  • April 17, 1928:This author "grits teeth, beds nurse, fights in war, sits at bar, remembers nurse"
  • From age 19 on, he had a platinum kneecap to replace one shattered in WWI
  • This son also rose on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in the JFK Library & Museum.) The Kennedy Library has a fine collection of the papers & mementos of this writer, including an antelope that he shot on safari
  • His Key West home at 907 Whitehead Street is now a museum
  • His "True at First Light", about an African safari, was published in 1999, 38 years after his suicide
  • War correspondent Martha Gellhorn was married to this author from 1940 to 1945
  • Jack, son of this author, took his fly rod on a parachute jump into WWII occupied France, claiming it was an antenna
  • Reagan's last film role was as a bad guy in 1964's "The Killers", based on a short story by this man
  • This author was the son of a doctor, & he made the father of his alter ego Nick Adams a doctor, too
  • He wrote books on fishing & hunting, & you might also enjoy his classic "A Farewell to Arms"