"Any man's life, told truly," Ernest Hemingway wrote in Death in the Afternoon (1932), "is a novel," and he strove to lead a life "better than any picaresque novel you ever read." The mention of his name conjures up a host of images--a cub reporter...

Ernest Hemingway was twenty-two years old when he arrived in Paris in late December 1921. He had taken part in World War I as a volunteer ambulance driver, and after his experiences in Europe during the war he found life in the United States provincial...

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of American writers. He is seen variously as a sensitive and dedicated artist and as a hedonistic adventurer, as a literary poseur and as the stylistic genius of the century. His...

(b. July 21, 1899; d. July 2, 1961) Author. Ernest Hemingway was one of America's foremost novelists. He began his career as a newspaper reporter and Red Cross volunteer in World War I. Hemingway became part of the "Lost...

At the height of his popularity, Ernest Hemingway was hailed as the greatest writer of American literature, a hero of several wars, a world-class sportsman in the fields of bullfighting, boxing, hunting, and fishing, and a connoisseur of food, wine,...

9ernest Hemingway Excerpt from The Sun Also Rises Published in 1926 One of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, Hemingway was a leading figure among the famous U.S. expatriates (people who live outside of their home countries) who...

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknaming himself "Papa" while still in his 20s, he was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as "the Lost...

Ernest Hemingway, the self-appointed "Papa" of the literary world, liked calling his women friends "daughter," among them Marlene Dietrich, according to letters that suggest their bond was steadfast, passionate and likely platonic.The correspondence between the icons, who met aboard an ocean liner in 1934, details...

Today is Saturday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2007. There are 163 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 21, 1861, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.On this date:In 1831, Leopold I...

Presidential candidates are seeing pieces of themselves in the books they've been reading lately.Barack Obama recently finished "Gilead," a novel about an old man's words to his 7-year-old son. The man, in Gilead, Iowa, believes he's on the verge of death and wants his son...

Are you getting ready for camping season?Then you're also getting ready to cook at your camp site. "The Great American Camping Cookbook" by Scott Cookman (Broadway Books, $17.95) can help.Cookman says in his introduction that most campers take too much food or too little, and...

In the following essay from an anthology celebrating Hemingway's centennial, Knott reviews responses to the author's controversial novel To Have and Have Not.

In the following essay, Lamb analyzes the dialogue in “Indian Camp,” “A Canary for One," and “Hills Like White Elephants.”

In the following essay, Moddelmog examines In Our Time, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and The Garden of Eden through the lens of queer theory to argue that although Hemingway did not depict many stereotypical nuclear families, his fiction is nevertheless deeply concerned with kinship.

A lengthy biography of American writer Ernest Hemingway. Includes information about his childhood, his career as a journalist and author, and his personal life.

Complete biography on Ernest Hemingway

What distinguishes Hemingway both from his predecessors and from his contemporaries is the theory he deals with the challenge of spatial limitation which every short story writer has to face: how can he say more than his space actually allows him to say? The principle of the iceberg, as the theory is called by Hemingway, leaves distinctive imprints on his short stories: a clipped, spare style, naturalistic presentation of actions and observations, heavy reliance on dramatic dialogue, and a pattern of connec