Coronavirus exposure actions:
The PEN/Hemingway festivities scheduled for April 5 are canceled and will be rescheduled for a later date (TBD).
The JFK Library, NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) and all Presidential Libraries, are closed to the public until further notice.
The Florida Hemingway Society is offering a $500 Award for the best essay on Hemingway and the Arts. The award is open to all Florida College or University students. Submissions are due by March 21, 2020. See details at www.floridahemingwaysociety.org/news/2020/2/25/fhs-essay-contest
Many of us recall Tim O’Brien’s keynote lecture in Oak Park, “Timmy and Tad and Papa and I” a 2016 conference highlight. You can now time-travel back to that magical night in Lund Auditorium at Dominican University by enjoying a video of that keynote presentation.
Hemingway's Toronto apartment, unit 19 of 1597-99 Bathurst Street, is for sale. Hemingway lived in the apartment from 1923-1924 while working as a journalist for the Toronto Star. Hemingway and Hadley were in Toronto for the birth of their son John (Bumby), who was born on October 10, 1923. To see some current pictures, visit:
The restoration centre built by the Cuban National Cultural Heritage Council and Finca Vigia Foundation of the United States is located on the 15-acre (6-hectare) property where Hemingway lived in a tree-shaded, airy Spanish-style home. For more information, click here.
Critically-acclaimed debut author Tommy Orange is the winner of the 2019 PEN/Hemingway Award for his novel There There (Knopf), PEN America announced today. Honoring a distinguished first novel, Tommy Orange will receive $25,000 underwritten by the Hemingway Family and the Hemingway Foundation, as well as a month-long Residency Fellowship at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, a retreat for artists and writers, valued at $10,000.
After nearly twenty years, the Clarke Historical Library’s Hemingway Collection opened in February 2019, and will run through September. For more information about the exhibit, including its catalog, please see the exhibit booklet.
A stage adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea will premiere Friday, February 1st, 2019. Adapted by A.E. Hotchner and his son Tim Hotchner, directed by Ronald Allan-Lindblom, and starring Anthony Crivello as Santiago and David Cabot as Hemingway, the play will debut at Point Park University’s Pittsburgh Playhouse. The production will run through February 17th, 2019.
This year, the following debut novels have been selected as finalists for the PEN/Hemingway Award: Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater; Meghan Kenny’s The Driest Season: A Novel; Ling Ma’s Severance; Tommy Orange’s
Historian Marino Perissinotto has identified the WWI soldier who inadvertently saved Hemingway’s life by taking the brunt of a mortar explosion on July 8th, 1918. By whittling down James McGrath Morris’s list of 18 candidates (see his postscript to The Ambulance Drivers), Perissonotto hypothesizes that Fedele Temperini, a 26-year-old soldier from Montalcino, was Hemingway's savior along the Piave. For more details about Temperini and Perissinotto's historical research, see Morris’s recent article.