On July 21, 1899, Ernest Hemingway, the American novelist and short story writer, was born.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

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[FirstLight]

1. well, that's a coincedence!

My dad's Bday is today...he died last year, 2 months to the day before his 90th.

I have always loved Hemingway, his writing, his passionate lifestyle. Yes, he was a mysogynistic womanizer etc, but damn, he really LIVED! His writing has been something I've found fascinating...as a journalist and writer myself.
thankks for the information, now I guess I have some cool insight into EH and my dad

[moniss]

2. As you mentioned about his personal aspects

they could leave much to be desired but I try with creative talent to look at the work rather than the creator themselves. I know you do as well. My first Hemingway was "A Farewell to Arms" and to this day the final pages are some of the most artistic, emotional and well written expressions of loss, sorrow and acceptance from a man's point of view and experience. I hated the movie. I hated all of the movies. Possibly a European director and screenwriter might have been more in tune and been more insistent on sticking closer to the books.

[FirstLight]

3. I think my first was "For whom the Bell Tolls"

I never saw any of the movies. I have a huge bound volume of his personal letters from 1915 - 67 which are really interesting. Recently, Ive been getting into "The Movable Feast"...

I have a love of all thngs Paris and especially the Lost Generation of the 20's. I love the descriptions of the old Paris city, I'd probably be dissapointed to visit today lol.

[moniss]

4. It was an incredible period of creativity and

yes much is changed. But we have the "time travel" ability through things like the volume of letters you have. I recently picked up a publication of rare photos of Andy Warhol and company from the mid '60's by the photographer Larry Fink. Other shots included were some great mid '60's NYC skyline shots, street shots from the Vietnam Moratorium Marches later on etc. from NYC and in DC at the Washington Monument. Small Italian printer, very good heavy stock paper and large format hardcover. I go for the unusual but meaningful. I missed out a few years back when I hesitated to buy a copy from the very small original run of Paul Kantner's "Nicaragua Diaries". The first rarity I ever bought was way back in the mid '70's when I got a rare binding of "Evangeline" by Longfellow. It was mid sized, gilt edged paper, type font was a classic style and the paper stock was a nice near beige/shell color. The binding was the thing that stood out most to me because it was like the normal hard cover panels but with padded light beige/brownish suede with the title and author imprinted in gold on the suede. Very unusual. Never saw another like it and I took it to be a custom binding that someone had done which meant to me that for someone to do that the volume must have been very special to them. Sadly I lost it in the shuffle of life.

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5. Ernest Hemingway is said to have written the shortest story ever.

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn"

For a fairly quick read (longer than the above), I love the collection of his short stories.