When it comes to writing a book, there are many reasons to emulate the masters. Proust famously wrote in bed, while Joan Didion took an hour before dinner to read that day’s writing with a drink in ...

Hemingway's reputation has suffered immensely over the last two or three decades. Read around enough and you'll see this. And I can feel it when I occasionally confess to people — for you don't tell ...

Ernest Hemingway was one of the great innovators in literary form. His apparent renunciation of stylistic flourishes—the absence of lyrical rhetoric, the spare sketching of context, the paring of ...

Letters Editor Betty Talbert writes: We all are persnickety about a thing or two in life and writers seem more persnickety than most with many prides and prejudices about how the English language ...

KEY WEST, Fla. — Any trip to this sparkling treasure of a city surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico’s turquoise waters would not be compete without a visit to The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum. The ...

In the summer of 1918, as World War I was entering its final bloody stages, Ernest Hemingway, like most American youth, answered the call to serve in this “war to end all wars.” Then, as now, the same ...