paws and reflect...

laughingwolf · at 6:44 PM

Former president Clinton to receive honourary doctorate from Montreal's McGill University...

2 hours, 20 minutes ago

By The Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Former U.S. president, William Jefferson Clinton, is headed to Montreal to receive an honorary university doctorate.

Clinton will receive the award from McGill at a private ceremony on 16 Oct.

The school's vice-chancellor says the ex-president has distinguished himself as a global statesman - and not only during his stint in the White House.

Clinton's personal foundation has raised money for a variety of causes, including fighting HIV-AIDS, poverty, and climate change.

"Few individuals define the expression global leader as perfectly as Bill Clinton," said Heather Munroe-Blum, McGill's principal and vice-chancellor.

"During his presidency and in the years since, President Clinton has demonstrated an unyielding devotion to social justice in the world.

"His continued leadership inspires us all to do more, and we are honored to have the opportunity to formally recognize his contributions."

Ironically, Clinton will make the trip just before another ex-president heads to Montreal.

His successor, George W. Bush, will deliver a speech several days later at the city's Queen Elizabeth hotel.

U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, laughs with United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, after a resolution vote during the Security Council Session on Women, Peace and Security at the United Nations in New York 30 September 2009 REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES POLITICS SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)

laughingwolf · at 6:03 PM

Canadian ex-bishop faces child porn charges: report...

2 hours, 15 minutes ago

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A former Canadian bishop has been charged with distributing and selling child pornography, after airport officials examined his laptop computer, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said today.

It said Bishop Raymond Lahey, from the Roman Catholic diocese of Antigonish, in Nova Scotia, was arrested at Ottawa airport last week after officers from the Canada Border Services Agency performed a random check of his laptop computer.

Lahey subsequently announced last Saturday he was resigning for personal reasons.

A spokesman for the diocese was not available for comment.

The Border Services Agency did not immediately respond to a request for more details.

Earlier this year, Lahey oversaw a multimillion-dollar settlement with people who said they had been sexually abused by priests in the diocese dating back to 1950, CBC said.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Rob Wilson)

laughingwolf · at 4:15 PM

Indonesia quake kills 75, thousands trapped...

30 Sep '09

By John Nedy

PADANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake struck off the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island Wednesday, killing at least 75 people and trapping thousands under rubble, officials said.

The death toll was likely to rise as many buildings in the city of 900,000 people had collapsed, Vice President Jusuf Kalla told a late night news conference in Jakarta.

"We have received a report from the mayor of Padang that the death toll is 75.

"But many others are trapped in collapsed shops, building and hotels.

"It is difficult to know because it is dark now," Kalla said.

TV footage showed devastation, with piles of rubble and smashed houses after the 7.6 magnitude earthquake, which caused widespread panic across the city.

Rustam Pakaya, the head of the health ministry's disaster center in Jakarta, said "thousands of people are trapped in the rubble of buildings".

The main hospital had collapsed, roads were cut by landslides and Metro Television said the roof of Padang airport had caved in.

Thousands were expected to spend the night in the open while a full assessment of the damage would need to wait until daybreak.

The disaster is the latest in a spate of natural and man-made calamities to hit Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of 226 million people.

Kalla said the government was preparing for an emergency response of up to two months.

Welfare Minister, Aburizal Bakrie, said authorities should prepare for the worst, adding damage could be on a par with an earthquake in the central Java city of Yogyakarta in 2006 that killed 5,000 people and damaged or destroyed 150,000 homes.

The quake was felt around the region, with some high-rise buildings in Singapore, 440 km (275 miles) to the northeast, evacuating staff. Office buildings also shook in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center canceled an earlier tsunami alert.

"Hundreds of houses have been damaged along the road.

There are some fires, bridges are cut and there is extreme panic here," said a Reuters witness in the city, who also said broken water pipes had triggered flooding.

His mobile phone was then cut off, and officials said power had been severed in the city.

A resident called Adi later told Metro Television there was devastation around him.

"For now I can't see dead bodies, just collapsed houses.

"Some half destroyed, others completely.

"People are standing around, too scared to go back inside.

"They fear a tsunami," said Adi.

"No help has arrived yet.

"I can see small children standing around carrying blankets.

'Some people are looking for relatives but all the lights have gone out completely."

Sumatra is home to some of the country's largest oil fields, as well as its oldest liquefied natural gas terminal, although there were no immediate reports of damage to those facilities.

PADANG LONG SEEN AT RISK

Padang, capital of Indonesia's West Sumatra province, sits on one of the world's most active fault lines along the "Ring of Fire", where the Indo-Australia plate grinds against the Eurasia plate, to create regular tremors and sometimes quakes.

A 9.15 magnitude quake, with its epicenter roughly 600 km (373 miles) northwest of Padang, caused the 2004 tsunami which killed 232,000 people in Indonesia's Aceh province, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, and other countries across the Indian Ocean.

The depth of Wednesday's earthquake was 85 km (53 miles), the United States Geological Survey said.

It revised down the magnitude of the quake from 7.9 to 7.6.

A series of tsunamis earlier Wednesday smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa, and Tonga, killing possibly more than 100 people, some washed out to sea, destroying villages and injuring hundreds.

Geologists have long said Padang may one day be destroyed by a huge earthquake because of its location.

"Padang sits right in front of the area with the greatest potential for an 8.9 magnitude earthquake," said Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, a geologist at the Indonesian Science Institute, in February.

"The entire city could drown" in a tsunami triggered by such a quake, he warned.

Several earthquake-prone parts of the country hold tsunami practice drills, and the national disaster service sends alerts via telephone text messages to subscribers.

But some experts have long said Indonesia needs to do more to reduce the risk of catastrophe.

(Additional reporting by Telly Nathalia and Sunanda Creagh in Jakarta; Writing by Nick Macfie/Ed Davies; Editing by Dean Yates)

A view of the Sinalei resort, south of Apia, capital of Samoa, after it was struck by a tsunami 29 September 2009.

Authorities canceled a Pacific tsunami warning on Wednesday after a huge sub-sea earthquake sent waves over the Samoa islands, reportedly killing about 14 people, but falling short of a regional disaster. REUTERS/via Your View

laughingwolf · at 4:13 PM

laughingwolf · at 4:10 PM

Police say accused freely admitted to killing and disposing of baby; trial told...

30 Sep '09

By The Canadian Press

ST. ANDREWS, N.B. - An RCMP officer says a New Brunswick man accused of killing an infant in January freely admitted to killing the child and disposing the body.

Const. Phillip Scribner told a court in St. Andrews, N.B., today 27-year-old Rodney Miller offered the details in the back of a police cruiser while being driven to an interrogation.

At the time, Miller and his girlfriend, Sarah Russell, had only been suspected of concealing the birth of a baby, but Scribner says Miller told him the baby was born alive, and had been left under a building on their property in Moore's Mills.

Miller is on trial for first-degree murder.

Four hours of video showing the subsequent interrogation in St. George was shown in court today.

Other witnesses described how a dog was used to lead police to the remains of the baby in woods behind the couple's home.

laughingwolf · at 2:09 PM

laughingwolf · at 2:01 PM

White House to exempt Canada on "Buy American": report...

30 Sep '09

TORONTO (Reuters) - The White House is expected to exempt Canada from a provision in the U.S. stimulus package that gives priority to American-made products used in local public works projects, CBC News reported today.

In return, Ottawa will offer U.S. companies guaranteed access to procurement contracts awarded by provincial and municipal governments, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported on its website, citing Canadian government sources.

The so-called "Buy American" provision, which favors U.S.-made steel, iron, and other manufactured goods in taxpayer-funded building projects, has proved a sore spot in relations between the two countries for months.

Canadian companies have complained the provision is protectionist and shuts them out from large U.S. contracts.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper discussed the issue with U.S. President Barack Obama during a visit to Washington last week.

Obama used the occasion to declare there was no prospect of a trade war between Canada and its largest trading partner, the United States.

(Reporting by Frank McGurty, editing by Chris Wilson)

laughingwolf · at 9:06 AM

By **Marc Saltzman** · at 9:04 AM

5 hot (and completely free) downloads...

By Marc Saltzman

Those who say nothing in life is free obviously haven't checked out some of the Internet's hottest downloads.

Hundreds of high-quality programs are available at no cost whatsoever, ranging from productivity tools to great games and everything in between.

The following are just a few suggestions worthy of your consideration.

To serve and protect

Most computer users understand the importance of good antivirus software, but not everyone can afford it.

Avira AntiVir Personal Edition offers free real-time computer protection against malicious viruses and nasty spyware.

With its frequent updates, intuitive interface and fast performance, this freebie – which can scan internal and external drives – is a recommended pick for those low on cash.

Cool tool for school

Microsoft is offering aggressive pricing on some versions of the full-featured Microsoft Office, but there are a few free options that should do the trick, such as the awesome OpenOffice.org from Sun Microsystems.

This suite of productivity tools – for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases and graphics -- runs on multiple operating systems and supports many file types created by other programs.

Let the music play

Even if you're not an iPod or iPhone user, there's a ton of functionality built into Apple's iTunes.

From media organization and playback to ripping and burning to streaming radio stations and podcast subscriptions, the free iTunes features a clean interface (with Cover Flow support for album cover scrolling) and serves as a gateway to Apple's awesome online store.

Also consider VideoLAN's free VLC Media Player, which supports dozens of audio and video codecs.

Picture perfect

You've probably used free photo editing and sharing tools like Flickr, Picasa, or Adobe Photoshop Express, but those who need something more robust might opt for the free GIMP, available for Windows, Mac, Linux and other operating systems.

With its customizable interface and powerful editing options, GIMP is ideal for both simple editing tasks – such as retouching, cropping, resizing and conversion – or more sophisticated tasks including heavy image manipulation and effects.

Mamma mia!

While Nintendo is probably none too pleased with this blatant knockoff, Super Mario Bros. 3 Mario Forever is a faithful and free clone to play on your computer.

Perfect for kids and kids at heart, this 24MB download lets you play the revamped classic using your keyboard (or connected gamepad) to run, jump and butt-stomp on baddies as everyone's favorite moustached plumber.

laughingwolf · at 8:56 AM

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Sackville...

Deceptive appearances had been the downfall of many a knight errant in times past, and Perciflan had heard of many in his twenty years.

He was blinded by the obvious

~2009 laugingwolf

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laughingwolf · at 8:52 AM

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Flash...

Before she died from the beatings, Lorna promised to come back and haunt everyone who'd ever done her wrong.

Of course, everyone laughed, jeering they'd seen the last of her.

Not long after she was buried in a markerless grave, she struck down the three who'd caused her the most grief with hellfire and damnation.

~2009 laughingwolf

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laughingwolf · at 8:31 AM

laughingwolf · at 8:26 AM

30 September 2009

Redirecting the Eruption
Lashing Out

Intense emotions demand intense modes of expression.

While there are many outlets for the feelings typically deemed positive, however, there are far fewer methods for constructively coping with anger, frustration, fear, sadness, or stress.

Consequently, such feelings can cause us to believe that we are no longer in control of our emotional state.

Backed into a mental corner, we may lash out at the first individual we encounter.

Most of us will quickly discover that our misdirected outpouring of fury has not relieved the pressure of our pain.

Powerful emotions are like the lava in a volcano, poised to erupt, held in check with nothing but an eroding layer of calm.

Within us lies the power to direct the flood of feeling that surges forth by channeling it into productive, artistic, or laborious pursuits.

Retaking control of our emotions at their height can be difficult because our already negative feelings can convince us others are deserving of our wrath.

But if we consciously look for healthier ways of expressing what we feel, we can both safely dispel our pain and use the energy of that pain to add value to our lives.

Anger and sadness, for example, can become the inspiration that induces us to dedicate ourselves to bringing about the change we wish to see in the world.

If we act rather than react, we can become effective agents of positive transformation.

When we channel our frustration or feelings of stress into outside-the-box thinking and proactive exploits, we are more apt to discover solutions to the issues that initially left us stymied.

And if we view fear as a signal we need to reexamine our circumstances rather than a cue to flee, we may gain new and unexpected insight into our lives.

Channeling your emotions into constructive action can also prevent you from engaging in cyclical rumination in which you repeatedly relive the situation, event, or expectation that originally sparked your feelings in your mind's eye.

Since you are focused on a goal, even if your ambition is merely to better understand yourself, your pain is no longer being fed by your intellectual and emotional energy and quickly ebbs away.

You not only avoid lashing out at others, but you also actively take part in your own healing process while honestly acknowledging and honoring your feelings.

laughingwolf · at 8:25 AM

laughingwolf · at 8:23 AM

The Wishes...

Within the Great Mogul's domains there are
Familiar sprites of much domestic use:
They sweep the house, and take a tidy care
Of equipage, nor garden work refuse;
But, if you meddle with their toil,
The whole, at once, you're sure to spoil.
One, near the mighty Ganges flood,
The garden of a burgher good
Worked noiselessly and well;
To master, mistress, garden, bore
A love that time and toil outwore,
And bound him like a spell.
Did friendly zephyrs blow,
The demon's pains to aid?
(For so they do, it's said.)
I own I do not know.
But for himself he rested not,
And richly blessed his master's lot.
What marked his strength of love,
He lived a fixture on the place,
In spite of tendency to rove
So natural to his race.
But brother sprites conspiring
With importunity untiring,
So teased their goblin chief, that he,
Of his caprice, or policy,
Our sprite commanded to attend
A house in Norway's farther end,
Whose roof was snow-clad through the year,
And sheltered human kind with deer.
Before departing to his hosts
Thus spake this best of busy ghosts:
"To foreign parts I'm forced to go!
For what sad fault I do not know;—
But go I must; a month's delay,
Or week's perhaps, and I'm away.
Seize time; three wishes make at will;
For three I'm able to fulfil—
No more." Quick at their easy task,
Abundance first these wishers ask—
Abundance, with her stores unlocked—
Barns, coffers, cellars, larder, stocked—
Corn, cattle, wine, and money,—
The overflow of milk and honey.
But what to do with all this wealth!
What inventories, cares, and worry!
What wear of temper and of health!
Both lived in constant, slavish hurry.
Thieves took by plot, and lords by loan;
The king by tax, the poor by tone.
Thus felt the curses which
Arise from being rich,—
"Remove this affluence!" they pray;
The poor are happier than they
Whose riches make them slaves.
"Go, treasures, to the winds and waves;
Come, goddess of the quiet breast,
Who sweet'nest toil with rest,
Dear Mediocrity, return!"
The prayer was granted as we learn.
Two wishes thus expended,
Had simply ended
In bringing them exactly where,
When they set out they were.
So, usually, it fares
With those who waste in such vain prayers
The time required by their affairs.
The goblin laughed, and so did they.
However, before he went away,
To profit by his offer kind,
They asked for wisdom, wealth of mind,—
A treasure void of care and sorrow—
A treasure fearless of the morrow,
Let who will steal, or beg, or borrow.

~Jean de la Fontaine

laughingwolf · at 8:59 PM

Toyota plans huge U.S. recall for dangerous floormats...

1 hour, 45 minutes ago

By Soyoung Kim and John Crawley

DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said on Tuesday it will recall some 3.8 million vehicles because of the risk a loose floormat could force down the accelerator, a problem suspected of causing crashes that killed five people.

"This is an urgent matter," said U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood.

The U.S. government said it has received reports of 100 related incidents, including 17 crashes and 5 fatalities, involving Toyota vehicles.

Toyota and U.S. safety regulators warned owners to remove all driver-side floor mats from eight Toyota and Lexus models, manufactured in the last six years and sold in the United States, including its Prius hybrid, as an immediate safety precaution.

The U.S. safety recall would be the largest ever such step for Toyota, the top global automaker.

A cost estimate for the company's still-developing recall was not immediately available.

In August, an off-duty California state trooper, and three members of his family, were killed in the San Diego area in a crash of a 2009 Lexus ES350.

Before the crash, a passenger in the car had called 911, and told dispatchers the accelerator was stuck, and the car had reached 120 miles per hour (193 km per hour).

The recall will cover recent versions of the Camry and Avalon sedans, the Prius hybrid, the Tacoma and Tundra pickup trucks, and luxury Lexus models, the IS250 and the IS350, as well as the ES350.

CALIFORNIA INVESTIGATION CONTINUES

The San Diego Sheriff's Department has not completed its investigation into the off-duty trooper's crash, a spokeswoman said.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has also sent investigators to look into the accident.

Toyota said it was waiting for a final report on the accident but wanted to act because of indications a floormat may have been involved.

"Obviously the tragic accident in San Diego was certainly an eye opener for all of us and we've paid very diligent attention to moving forward to try to make sure none of us will be reliving that kind of a very tragic situation," Toyota spokesman Irv Miller.

Toyota said it would issue specific recall notices as soon as it had a plan to address each of the models affected.

NHTSA closed an investigation into all-weather floor mats in Toyota vehicles in 2007 that resulted in a recall of more than 50,000 vehicles.

Toyota's largest previous largest recall was in 2005 for a problem with steering rods.

That recall covered about 900,000 vehicles, the automaker said.

More details on the safety advisory, including the vehicles covered, are available at the Toyota website http://www.toyota.com.

Drivers can also call Toyota at 1-800-331-4331, or Lexus at 1-800-255-3987.

(Additional reporting by Kevin Krolicki and Bernie Woodall in Detroit and John Crawley in Washington; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

A Toyota Motor Corp logo, and the reflection of an earth-shaped balloon, is seen on the company's hybrid vehicle, at a showroom in Tokyo 16 July 2009. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

laughingwolf · at 8:34 PM

27 September 2009...

Announcing a CONTEST!!

CHANNEL YOUR INNER LOVECRAFT!

In honor of Halloween, I'm going to hold a contest.

Also, it's to reward all my blog pals for putting up with the massive TMI (too much information) about my surgery and dieting woes, lol.

WE'RE GOING TO BE WRITING HORROR.

500 to 1,000ish words of spec fic horror, poetry or prose, humorous or creepy.

(You can go over 1,000 words, but please not by too much.)

And no slasher horror, pretty pretty please.

AND YOU GUYS GET TO VOTE ON THE WINNER.

We'll have voting on the entries after it's all over.

I might even submit something, but if I should luck out and win I'll give the prize to the runner up.

DEADLINE is 31 October, naturally.

SUBMISSIONS:

Send your submission to me in the body of an email, single spaced.

Addy: writtenwyrdd (at) earthlink.net.

Heading should read, "Chthulu contest submission".

Be sure and include the name you want me to use on the post.

I won't be naming individuals during the voting round, but at the announcements round.

MORE THAN ONE SUBMISSION IS ALLOWED, BUT SEND THEM SEPARATELY.

(Please keep it to two, though. We don't want to stack the deck.)

PLEASE REPOST AND SPREAD THE WORD.

I WOULD LIKE AT LEAST TWENTY ENTRIES TO MAKE THIS MORE FUN!

And because the prize is cool.

It's this cute, cuddly Chthulu.*

And, if we get more than 20 entries, I'll also be offering another prize to the runner up: a copy of, "On Her Majesty's Occult Service", by Charles Stross, which contains both The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue... two of my favorite books in one volume.

Geek humor and Lovecraftian horror.

Priceless!

*You can thank FairyHedgeHog for the prize idea.

She mentioned cuddly Chthulu, and I was inspired.

And for those of you who don't know what Chthulu is, it's a monster from Lovecraftian horror, and apparently (according to the PSA the other day) quite popular with the ladies.

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laughingwolf · at 8:26 PM

laughingwolf · at 8:20 PM

Philippines flooding leaves more than 140 dead...

By TERESA CEROJANO, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

29 September 2009

: A man takes a break from cleaning a house swamped by flash floods brought on by Typhoon Ketsana, locally known as Ondoy, in a middle class residential neighborhood in Marikina city east of Manila on 28 Sept. 2009.; The Philippines appealed for international aid to help tens of thousands marooned by flashfloods, and apologized for the delays in rescue efforts to avoid potential political fallout from the crisis. (REUTERS)

MANILA, Philippines -- Rescuers pulled more bodies from swollen rivers yesterday as residents started to dig out their homes from under carpets of mud after flooding left more than 140 people dead in the Philippine capital and surrounding towns.

Overwhelmed officials called for international help, warning they may not have sufficient resources to withstand another storm forecasters said was brewing east of the island nation and could hit as early as Friday.

Authorities expected the death toll from Tropical Storm Ketsana, which scythed across the northern Philippines Saturday, to rise as rescuers penetrate villages blocked off by floating cars and other debris.

The storm dumped more than a month's worth of rain in just 12 hours, fueling the worst flooding to hit the country in more than 40 years.

At least 140 people died, and 32 are missing.

Troops, police and volunteers have already rescued more than 7,900 people, but unconfirmed reports of more deaths abound, Defence Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said.

He told a news conference help from foreign governments will ensure the Philippine government can continue its relief work.

"We are trying our level best to provide basic necessities, but the potential for a more serious situation is there," Teodoro told a news conference.

"We cannot wait for that to happen."

The extent of devastation became clearer yesterday as TV networks broadcast images of mud-covered communities, cars upended on city streets, and reported huge numbers of villagers without drinking water, food, and power.

Since the storm struck, the government has declared a "state of calamity" in metropolitan Manila, and 25 storm-hit provinces, allowing officials to use emergency funds for relief and rescue.

The homes of nearly half a million people were inundated.

Some 115,000 of them were brought to about 200 schools, churches and other evacuation shelters, officials said.

Resident, Jeff Aquino, said floodwaters rose to his home's third floor at the height of the storm.

Aquino, his wife, three young children and two nephews spent that night on their roof without food and water, mixing infant formula for his 2-year-old twins with the falling rain.

"We thought it was the end for us," Aquino said.

Among those stranded by the floodwaters was young actress, Christine Reyes, who was rescued by movie and TV heartthrob, Richard Gutierrez, from the rooftop of her home near Manila, after she made a frantic call for help to a local TV network with her mobile phone.

laughingwolf · at 8:08 PM

Villages 'wiped out' by tsunami after Samoa quake: report...

1 hour, 8 minutes ago

APIA (AFP) - A powerful earthquake, with a magnitude of up to 8.3, struck off the South Pacific island nation of Samoa,Tuesday, wiping out villages and causing widespread destruction, a report said.

A reporter for Radio Polynesia told Radio New Zealand there were reports of missing people and serious damage.

"Damaged houses, villages being wiped out, there are speculations some people are missing out there, but no confirmation, yet," he told the station.

A New Zealand tourist, who called the station to appeal for help, said he was looking over an area of destruction from the safety of a hill, near Apia.

"We clambered up a hill, and one of the party has a broken leg.

"We just need help, there will be people in a great lot of need around here, it's flattened."

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said waves 1.57 metres (five feet) tall hit American Samoa, while 0.7 metre waves were recorded in Samoa.

The centre had earlier issued a tsunami warning for a large swathe of the South Pacific, including Fiji, New Zealand, and Tonga, after the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 7.9 magnitude quake.

The centre later said an 8.3 magnitude quake had been recorded at a depth of 33 kilometres (21 miles).

This was later revised downwards to 8.0 magnitude, with a depth of 18 kilometres.

Several powerful aftershocks also hit the region.

"Sea level readings indicate a tsunami was generated," said a statement from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.

"It may have been destructive along coasts near the earthquake epicentre and could also be a threat to more distant coasts.

"Authorities should take appropriate action in response to this possibility."

Samoa resident, Keni Lesa, told AFP in the capital Apia, people were moving inland.

"I'm taking my family to a safe place.

"Everyone's getting out of coastal areas," he said.

But Lesa said there was no panic, as "we have done a lot of training for this", living on a low lying island in an earthquake prone area.

Coastal houses were reported to have been damaged, schools were canceled, and roads were jammed, as streams of cars headed inland.

In New Zealand, civil defense officials activated emergency plans, and warned a tsunami up to one metre could hit parts of the east coast of the North Island.

Residents were warned to be prepared to evacuate coastal areas.

The tsunami warning was also in effect for American Samoa, Samoa, Niue Island, the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the Tokelau atolls, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Kermadec Islands, the Baker and Howland Islands, Jarvis Island, French Polynesia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Kosrae Island, and the Palmyra Islands.

A tsunami watch was issued for Australia, Indonesia, Antarctica, Yap, Guam, The Northern Mariana Islands, Chuuk, Marcus Island, Pitcairn and the Midway Islands.

The USGS said the region was struck by a 5.6 magnitude quake around 20 minutes after the first, followed by a series of other aftershocks, measuring up to 5.8

A tsunami travel time map and table generated by the United ...

29 Sep '09

A tsunami travel time map and table generated by the United States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center, shows projected travel times for the effects of an earthquake the center measured as having a preliminary magnitude of 8.3 occurring in the Samoa Islands Region of the Pacific Ocean on 29 September 2009.

The center warns travel time maps and tables indicate forecast times only, not that a wave traveling those distances has actually been generated.

The center reported sea level observations indicate a tsunami was generated which may have been destructive along coasts in the source region.

REUTERS/NOAA/NWS/West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center/Handout

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Jade...

For centuries it was known the dragon chooses its rider, not the other way round, but no one had told her that, so when old enough to speak, she commanded he let her ride him.

Her boldness shocked all, including the chief dragon she bid do her wishes.

They grew to be inseparable best friends.

~2009 laughingwolf

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Eudora...

The birthing tree yielded up a bouncing baby boy for the old man who had assumed his parental time was long past.

Finally he could pass on his second sight.

~2009 laughingwolf

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laughingwolf · at 10:32 AM

The most essential gift,

for a good writer,

is a built-in,

shockproof,

SHIT DETECTOR!

~Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway in 1939
Born	21 July 1899(1899-07-21) Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Died	02 July 1961 (aged 61) Ketchum, Idaho, United States
Occupation	Author, Novelist, Journalist
Nationality	American
Genres	War, Romance
Literary movement	The Lost Generation
Notable award(s)	Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – 1953
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1921–1927) Pauline Pfeiffer (1927–1940) Martha Gellhorn (1940–1945) Mary Welsh Hemingway (1946–1961)
Children	Jack Hemingway (1923–2000) Patrick Hemingway (1928–) Gregory Hemingway (1931–2001)

Ernest Miller Hemingway (21 July 1899 – 02 July 1961) was an American writer and journalist.

He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation".

He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing.

His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure".

Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.

Biography

Early life

Birthplace in Oak Park, Illinois

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.^[1]

Hemingway was the first son and the second child born to Clarence Edmonds "Doc Ed" Hemingway - a country doctor, and Grace Hall Hemingway.

Hemingway's father attended the birth of Ernest, and blew a horn on his front porch to announce to the neighbors his wife had given birth to a boy.

The Hemingways lived in a six-bedroom Victorian house built by Ernest's widowed maternal grandfather, Ernest Miller Hall, an English immigrant, and Civil War veteran, who lived with the family.

Hemingway was his namesake, although Hemingway disliked his name, and "associated it with the naive, even foolish hero of Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest".^[2]

Hemingway's mother once aspired to an opera career, and earned money giving voice and music lessons.

She was domineering and narrowly religious, mirroring the strict Protestant ethic of Oak Park, which Hemingway later said had "wide lawns and narrow minds".^[1]

Oak Park itself influenced Hemingway, and Frank Lloyd Wright, who was a contemporary resident, said of the village: "

'So many churches for so many good people to go to.' "^[3]

While his mother hoped her son would develop an interest in music, her insistence he learn the cello became a "source of conflict", although later he admitted his music lessons were useful to his writing, particularly to the "contrapunctal structure of For Whom the Bell Tolls ".^[4]

Hemingway adopted his father's outdoorsman hobbies of hunting, fishing and camping, in the woods and lakes of Northern Michigan.

The family owned a summer home,, called Windemere, on Walloon Lake, near Petoskey, Michigan, and often spent summers vacationing there.^[1]^[5]

These early experiences in close contact with nature instilled in Hemingway a lifelong passion for outdoor adventure and for living in remote or isolated areas, and the activities associated with Michigan such as hunting and fishing became permanent interests.^[5]

Hemingway attended Oak Park and River Forest High School from September 1913 until graduation in June 1917.

He boxed, was captain of the track team, a member of the water polo team, played football, displayed particular talent in English classes, and belonged to the debate team.^[6]

His first writing experience was writing and editing the "Trapeze" and "Tabula" (the school's newspaper and yearbook).

He imitated the language of sportswriters, and sometimes wrote under the pen name Ring Lardner, Jr., a nod to his literary hero Ring Lardner, of the Chicago Tribune, who used the byline "Line O'Type".^[7]^[8]

When he graduated from high school, Hemingway was hired as a cub reporter at The Kansas City Star, through the influence of his uncle who was a close friend to the chief editor, and joined the ranks of Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis who worked as journalists prior to becoming novelists.^[9]

Although he worked at the newspaper for only six months — from 17 October 1917 to 30 April 1918 — he relied on the Stars style guide as a foundation for his writing: "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative."^[10]^[11]^[12]

In honor of the centennial year of Hemingway's birth (1899), The Kansas City Star named Hemingway its top reporter of the last hundred years.

World War I

Hemingway in WWI uniform.(JFK Library)

As poet Archibald Macleish said of World War One, "It was something you 'went to' from a place called Paris".^[13]

Hemingway left his reporting job after only a few months, and tried to enlist in the United States Army, but he failed the medical examination because of poor vision.

Instead, he became an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, and was posted to Italy, leaving New York on May 1918 and arriving in Paris as the city was under bombardment from German artillery.^[14]

By June 1918, he was stationed at the Italian Front.^[15]

On 08 July 1918, as he ran an errand to the canteen, he was hit by mortar fire and seriously wounded.^[16]^[15]

Despite his wound, Hemingway carried an Italian soldier to safety, for which he was honored with the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery, the first American to receive the award.^[15]^[17]

He sustained serious injuries to both legs, underwent a temporary operation at the distribution center, then spent five days at a field hospital before being transferred to Milano.^[13]

Hemingway was two weeks shy of his nineteenth birthday and said of the incident: "When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality.

"Other people get killed; not you. . . .

"Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you."^[15]

For six months, Hemingway received treatment at the Red Cross hospital in Milano where he met Agnes von Kurowsky, a Red Cross nurse, with whom he fell in love.^[13]^[15]

She was more than seven years his senior.^[18]

The two planned to marry after Hemingway's recovery, but instead, she became engaged to an Italian officer by March 1919.^[19]

Critic Jeffrey Meyers claims Hemingway was devastated by Agnes' rejection, and as a result in subsequent relationships, he created a liason with a "future wife" while in a current marriage, thereby protecting himself from rejection as he would abandon a wife before she abandoned him.^[20]

Post-war years (Toronto and Chicago)

Hemingway's 1921 apartment at 1239 North Dearborn, Chicago

In early 1919, Hemingway returned from Italy to Oak Park, and spent the following summer fishing at the family cottage in Michigan, with high school friends.

The summer became the genesis for his Nick Adams' story, "Big Two-Hearted River".^[15]^[21]

In 1920, Hemingway moved to Toronto, to live with friends, began writing for the Toronto Star Weekly, although he returned to Michigan in the summer of 1920.^[22]

In Toronto, he lived in an apartment on 1599 Bathurst Street, now known as The Hemingway, in the Humewood-Cedarvale neighborhood in Toronto, Ontario.^[23]

At the Toronto Star Weekly, he worked as a freelancer, staff writer, and foreign correspondent.^[22]

For a short time, from late 1920 through most of 1921, Hemingway lived on the near north side of Chicago, while still filing stories for the Toronto Star.

He also worked as associate editor of the monthly journal, Co-operative Commonwealth.^[24]

In Chicago, Hemingway met Hadley Richardson, who was eight years older than him (and one year older than Agnes).^[25]

They married 03 September 1921.^[26]

After the honeymoon, they moved to a small top floor apartment on the 1300 block of Clark Street.^[27]

In November 1921, Hemingway became foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, and the couple left for Paris.^[28]

Paris

La Closerie des Lilas where Hemingway worked on The Sun Also Rises

Sherwood Anderson gave Hemingway letters of introduction to Gertrude Stein and other writers he had met during a recent trip to Paris.^[29]

Stein became Hemingway's mentor, and introduced him to the "Parisian Modern Movement" in the Montparnasse Quarter; this was the beginning of the expatriate circle that became known as the "Lost Generation", and included writers and artists such "Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, Max Eastman, Lincoln Steffens, Wyndham Lewis, and the painters Miro and Picasso."^[30]

Hemingway made valuable friendships among the people he met there.

Although Hemingway's relationship with Stein began as one of mentorship, he withdrew from her influence, and their relationship deteriorated to a literary quarrel that lasted until his death.^[31]

Ezra Pound also was an influential mentor to Hemingway, and perhaps the first writer to recognize his talent.

The two met in February 1922, toured Italy together in 1923, and lived on the same street in 1924.^[32]

Sylvia Beach, who published James Joyce's Ulysses, ran a bookshop called "Shakespeare and Company" that became a popular gathering place for the writers.^[33]

Hemingway first met Joyce there in March 1922, and the two often went on "alcoholic sprees".^[33]

Ernest, Hadley, and Bumby Hemingway 1926

Hemingway covered the Greco-Turkish War for the Toronto Star, and witnessed the catastrophic burning of Smyrna, an event he introduced in several pieces of short fiction.^[34]

He also wrote travel pieces for the Toronto Star, such as "Tuna Fishing in Spain", "Trout Fishing All Across Europe: Spain Has the Best, Then Germany", and about sports — "Pamplona in July; World's Series of Bull Fighting a Mad, Whirling Carnival".^[34]

In December 1922, when Hadley was traveling from Paris to Geneva, to join him with a suitcase filled with his manuscripts, the suitcase was lost at Gare de Lyons... and never found — an event that hounded Hemingway for years.^[35]

A few months later, Hadley became pregnant, and the couple returned to Toronto where their son, John Hadley Nicanor, was born 10 October 1923.^[36]

In early 1924, they returned to Paris, and Hemingway decided to stop writing for the Toronto Star, recreate the lost stories, and submit them for publication.^[37]

Ezra Pound introduced Hemingway to Ford Madox Ford early in 1924, and Hemingway helped Ford edit "The Transatlantic Review", which published works by Pound, John Dos Passos, and Gertrude Stein.

In addition, Ford published some of Hemingway's early stories, such as "Indian Camp" in the "The Transatlantic Review".^[38]

When Hemingway's first collection of fiction, "In Our Time", was published in 1925, the dust jacket included comments from Ford.^[39]^[30]

Six months earlier, Hemingway met F. Scott Fitzgerald, and two began a friendship of "admiration and hostility".^[40]

In the summer of 1925, Hemingway and Hadley traveled with a group of American and British ex-patriates to Pamplona to the Festival of San Fermín, as they had twice before, and, the events during that trip directly inspired Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, which he began writing a month later, and finished the first draft in two months.

During the next six months, he revised the manuscript... as his marriage to Hadley disintegrated.

Scribner's published the book in October 1926.^[41]

Hemingway divorced Hadley in January 1927, and in May married Pauline Pfeiffer.^[42]

Pfeiffer wrote for fashion magazines, such Vanity Fair, and worked for Vogue in Paris.^[43]^[30]^[44]

Hemingway converted to Catholicism to marry Pauline.^[45]

In October 1927, Men Without Women, a collection of short stories, containing The Killers, one of Hemingway's best-known and most-anthologized stories, was published.^[46]

By the end of the year, Pauline was pregnant, and on the recommendation of Dos Passos, the Hemingways moved to Key West, Florida.

After his departure from Paris, Hemingway "never again lived in a big city".^[47]

Key West and the Caribbean

The Hemingway-Pfeiffer House, built in 1927

On 28 June 1928, Hemingway's second son, Patrick, was born in Kansas City.

Pauline suffered a difficult labor, and had a Caesarean.^[48]

Living at the Pfeiffer House in Piggott, Arkansas, Hemingway worked on A Farewell to Arms before leaving to travel to Wyoming, Massachusetts, and New York.

In December, he received a cable with the news of his father's death, who, suffering from ill health, depression, and financial trouble, had shot himself with his father's Civil War pistol.^[49]^[48]^[50]

Ernest Hemingway House on Key West

Hemingway continued to travel extensively, returning to France and Spain in the summer of 1929 to gather material for Death in the Afternoon.

A Farewell to Arms was published in September of that year.^[51]

Following a pattern begun in childhood, Hemingway spent the winters in Key West and began to summer in Wyoming where he found "the most beautiful country he had seen in the American West" and where the hunting included deer, elk and grizzly bear.^[52]

In 1931 he established his first American home, a present from Pauline's uncle, which has since been converted to a museum.^[50]^[53]

Later that year, his third son, Gregory, was born 12 November 1931.^[54]

The property, located on Whitehead Street, had a converted den on the second floor of the "carriage house" in which Hemingway found a space to work quietly.^[55]

When in residence in Key West, Hemingway fished in the waters around the Dry Tortugas with his longtime friend, Waldo Peirce, and went to the famous bar Sloppy Joe's.^[56]^[57]^[58]

The Hemingway Family with marlins. Bimini, 1935 (JFK Library)

In 1933, Hemingway fulfilled a boyhood dream and travelled to Africa for ten weeks.

The trip provided material for Green Hills of Africa, and the short stories, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".^[59]^[60]

He visited Mombasa, Nairobi, and Machakos in Kenya, then Tanganyika on safari, where he hunted in the Serengeti, around Lake Manyara, and west and southeast of the present-day Tarangire National Park.

Hemingway contracted amoebic dysentery, causing a prolapsed intestine, and he was evacuated to Nairobi by plane, an experience which is reflected in his story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro".

On this trip, Hemingway's guide was Philip Hope Percival, who had guided Theodore Roosevelt on his 1909 safari.

Hemingway began writing Green Hills of Africa as soon as he returned, which was published in 1935.^[61]

In 1934, Hemingway bought a boat, named it the "Pilar", and began sailing the Caribbean.^[62]

In 1935 he discovered Bimini, where he spent considerable time, from 1935 to 1937.^[59]

During this period, he also worked on To Have or Have Not, the only novel he wrote during the 1930s.

To Have or Have Not was published in 1937, when he was in Spain.^[63]

Spanish Civil War

Ivens, Hemingway, and Renn (of the International Brigade). Spanish Civil War, 1937

In 1937, Hemingway traveled to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

He arrived in France in March 1937, and arrived in Spain with Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens ten days later.^[64]

Ivens was filming The Spanish Earth with John Dos Passos as screen writer; however, upon receiving news his friend José Robles had been arrested, Dos Passos turned his work over to Hemingway.^[65]

When his friend was executed, Dos Passos changed his opinion of the Republicans; as a result, the two novelists broke their relationship.

As Dos Passos left Spain, Hemingway subsequently spread a rumor he was a coward, which caused an irrevocable split.

Dos Passos was the last of Hemingway's friends from the Paris era.^[66]^[67]

In addition, journalist Martha Gellhorn, whom Hemingway had met in Key West in 1936, joined him in Spain, and his relationship with her is inextricably tied to the Spanish Civil War.^[15]^[68]

Hemingway and Gellhorn continued their relationship throughout the war, before Hemingway divorced Pauline in 1940.^[50]

Pauline was a devout Catholic and sided with the pro-Catholic nationalists, whereas Hemingway supported the Republicans.^[50]

During this time, Hemingway wrote, "The Denunciation", which would not be published until 1969 in the Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War that includes his only piece of drama written during the bombardment of Madrid in 1937.^[69]^[70]

Hemingway's involvement with the republicans and the International Brigade may have extended so far as teaching young Spaniards how to use rifles.^[71]

In 1938, after having returned home to Key West for a few months, Hemingway returned to Spain and was present at the Battle of the Ebro, the last republican stand.

With fellow British and American journalists, Hemingway rowed across the river, some of the last to leave the battle.^[72]^[73]

Some health problems characterized this period of Hemingway's life: Influenza, toothache, hemorrhoids, kidney trouble from fishing, torn groin muscle, finger gashed to the bone in an accident with a punching ball, lacerations (to arms, legs, and face) from a ride on a runaway horse through a deep Wyoming forest, and a broken arm from a car accident.

Cuba and World War II

Ernest Hemingway with sons and kittens in Finca Vigia, Cuba 1946. (JFK Library)

In 1940, Hemingway divorced Pauline, and married Martha Gellhorn.^[74]

In 1939, he and Martha moved to Cuba, and in 1940 he bought the "Finca Vigia", which they had been renting.^[75]

During that period, he also finished writing, For Whom the Bells Toll, which he began in March 1939, finished in July 1940, and was published in October 1940.^[76]

During the period he worked on For Whom the Bells Toll, he traveled from Cuba to Wyoming to Sun Valley, Idaho.^[77]

After the divorce and remarriage, he also changed the locations of his homes, as he had after his split with Hadley, moving his primary summer residence to Ketchum, Idaho, (just outside of the newly built resort Sun Valley) in addition to the move from Key West to Cuba.^[78]

In January 1941, Martha was sent to China, on assignment for Collier's magazine, and Hemingway accompanied her.^[79]

Hemingway wrote dispatches for PM, but in general had little affinity for China.^[80]

When he returned to Cuba, after the beginning of World War II, Hemingway refitted the Pilar, and took to the waters to hunt down German submarines.^[15]

Later, from June to December 1944, he was in Europe,^[81] and was present at the D-Day landing.^[82]

He then attached himself to "the 22nd Regiment, commanded by Col. Charles "Buck" Lanham, as it drove toward Paris", and also had a small band of village militia in Rambouillet outside of Paris.^[83]

Of Hemingway's exploits, a war historian remarks: " 'Hemingway got into considerable trouble playing infantry captain to a group of Resistance people he gathered because a correspondent is not supposed to lead troops, even if he does it well.' "^[15]

On 25 August, he was present at the liberation of Paris, though the assertion he was first in the city, or he liberated the Ritz, is considered part of the Hemingway legend.^[84]^[85]

While in Paris, he attended a reunion hosted by Sylvia Beach, and also made up his long feud with Gertrude Stein.^[86]

During the late autumn of 1944, Hemingway was present at heavy fighting in the Hürtgenwald.^[87]

When Hemingway arrived in Europe, he met Time correspondent Mary Welsh in London.^[88] During the war his marriage to Martha disintegrated, and the last time he saw her was in March 1945, as he was preparing to return to Cuba.^[89]

In 1947 Hemingway, was awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery during World War II.

His valor for having been " 'under fire in combat areas in order to obtain an accurate picture of conditions,' " was recognized, with the commendation, " 'Through his talent of expression, Mr. Hemingway enabled readers to obtain a vivid picture of the difficulties and triumphs of the front-line soldier and his organization in combat.' "^[15]

Cuba and later years

Ernest Hemingway writing in Kenya in 1953 (JFK Library)

Aboard his yacht, the Pilar, ca. mid 1950s (JFK Library)

Hemingway married Mary Welsh in March 1946, and five months later, she suffered an ectopic pregnancy.^[90]

Hemingway and Mary suffered a series of accidents after the war: in 1945 Hemingway had a car accident and injured his knee, and over the next five years, Mary suffered a number of broken bones.^[90]

In 1947 his sons Patrick and Gregory had a car accident, and Gregory suffered a serious illness as a consequence.^[90]

Also, the 1940s was a decade when many of Hemingway's friends died.

In 1939 Yeats and Ford Madox Ford died; in 1940 Scott Fitzgerald died; in 1941 Sherwood Anderson and James Joyce died; in 1946 Gertrude Stein died; and the following year, 1947, Max Perkins, Hemingway's long time editor and friend, died.^[91]

Hemingway began to suffer from ill health: headaches, high blood pressure, weight problems, depression, and eventually diabetes, all of which combined with the results of numerous accidents left him unhappy.

He began writing a book titled The Garden of Eden.^[92]

In 1948 Hemingway and Mary traveled to Europe, and in Italy he visited the site of the his World War I accident.^[93]

Soon thereafter, he began work on Across the River and Into the Woods, which he worked on through 1949^[93] and published it in 1950.^[94]

For the first time he received bad reviews to which he retorted in an interview for the New York Times:" 'Sure they can say anything about nothing happening in Across the River, all that happens is the defense of the lower Piave, the breakthrough in Normandy, the taking of Paris...plus a man who loves a girl and dies.' "^[95]

In 1951, in eight weeks he completed the draft of Old Man and the Sea, and considered it "the best I can write ever, for all of my life".^[92]

On safari, he was seriously injured in two successive plane crashes; he sprained his right shoulder, arm, and left leg, had a grave concussion, temporarily lost vision in his left eye and the hearing in his left ear, suffered paralysis of the spine, a crushed vertebra, ruptured liver, spleen and kidney, and first degree burns on his face, arms, and leg.

Some American newspapers mistakenly published his obituary, thinking he had been killed.^[96]

Hemingway was then badly injured, one month later, in a bushfire accident, which left him with second degree burns on his legs, front torso, lips, left hand and right forearm.

The pain left him in prolonged anguish, and he was unable to travel to Stockholm to accept his Nobel Prize.

Although some of his energy seemed to be restored, severe drinking problems kept him down.

His blood pressure and cholesterol were perilously high, he suffered from aortal inflammation, and his depression was aggravated by his dipsomania.

However, in October 1956, Hemingway found the strength to travel to Madrid, and act as a pallbearer at Pío Baroja's burial.

Baroja was one of Hemingway's literary influences.

Following the revolution in Cuba and the ousting of General Fulgencio Batista in 1959, expropriations of foreign owned property led many Americans to return to the United States.

Hemingway chose to stay a little longer.

It is commonly said he maintained good relations with Fidel Castro, declared his support for the revolution, and he is quoted as wishing Castro "all luck" with running the country.^[97]^[98]

However, the Hemingway account, "The Shot"^[99], is used by Cabrera Infante and others^[100]^[101] as evidence of conflict between Hemingway and Fidel Castro dating back to 1948, and the killing of "Manolo" Castro, a friend of Hemingway.^[102]

Hemingway came under surveillance by the FBI both during World War II and afterwards (most probably because of his long association with marxist Spanish Civil War veterans^[103] who were again active in Cuba), for his residence and activities in Cuba.^[98]

In 1960, he left the island, and Finca Vigía, his estate outside Havana, he had owned for over twenty years.

The official Cuban government account is, it was left to the Cuban government, which has made it into a museum devoted to the author.^[104]^[105]

In 2001, Cuba's state-owned tourism conglomerate, El Gran-Caribe SA, began licensing the La Bodeguita del Medio international restaurant chain relying largely on the original Havana restaurant's association with Hemingway, a frequent visitor.^[106]

In February 1960, Ernest Hemingway was unable to get his bullfighting narrative The Dangerous Summer to the publishers.

He therefore had his wife Mary summon his friend, Life Magazine bureau head Will Lang Jr., to leave Paris and come to Spain.

Hemingway persuaded Lang to let him print the manuscript, along with a picture layout, before it came out in hardcover.

Although not a word of it was on paper, the proposal was agreed upon.

The first part of the story appeared in Life Magazine 05 September 1960, with the remaining installments being printed in successive issues.

Hemingway was upset by the photographs in his The Dangerous Summer article.

He was receiving treatment in Ketchum, Idaho for high blood pressure and liver problems this; may in fact have helped to precipitate his suicide, since he reportedly suffered significant memory loss as a result of the shock treatments.

He also lost weight, his 6-foot (183 cm) frame appearing gaunt at 170 pounds (77 kg, 12st 2 lb).

Suicide

Hemingway

In the spring of 1961, three months after his initial treatment at the Mayo clinic, where he received a series of ECT treatments, Hemingway attempted suicide in his Sun Valley home.

His wife, Mary, convinced the local physician, Dr. Saviers, to hospitalize Hemingway at Sun Valley hospital, and from there he returned to the Mayo clinic where he was "given ten more shock treatments." ^[107]

On the morning of 02 July 1961, Hemingway committed suicide.^[107]

Dr. Scott Earle arrived at 7:40 a.m, having been summoned to the house, and he certified the death.^[108]

At request of the family, the coroner did not do an autopsy.^[109]

Other members of Hemingway's immediate family also committed suicide, including his father, Clarence Hemingway, his siblings Ursula and Leicester, and his granddaughter Margaux Hemingway.

Some believe certain members of Hemingway's paternal line had a hereditary disease, known as haemochromatosis, in which an excess of iron concentration in the blood causes damage to the pancreas, and also causes depression or instability in the cerebrum.^[110]

Hemingway's father is known to have developed haemochromatosis in the years prior to his suicide at age fifty-nine.

Throughout his life, Hemingway had been a heavy drinker, succumbing to alcoholism in his later years.

Hemingway is interred in the town cemetery in Ketchum, Idaho, at the north end of town.

A memorial was erected in 1966 at another location, overlooking Trail Creek, north of Ketchum.

It is inscribed with a eulogy he wrote for a friend, Gene Van Guilder:

Best of all he loved the fall
The leaves yellow on the cottonwoods
Leaves floating on the trout streams
And above the hills
The high blue windless skies
Now he will be a part of them forever

Ernest Hemingway - Idaho - 1939

Celebrating Hemingway's love for Idaho and the frontier, The Ernest Hemingway Festival^[111] takes place annually, in Ketchum and Sun Valley, in late September with scholars, a reading by the PEN/Hemingway Award winner and many more events, including historical tours, open mic nights, and a sponsored dinner at Hemingway's home in Warm Springs now maintained by the Nature Conservancy in Ketchum.

Writings

See also: Bibliography of Ernest Hemingway

Early writing

During his Paris years, in addition to filing stories for the Toronto Star, Hemingway published short stories in various journals, the short story collection in our time (1925), Torrents of Spring (1926), The Sun Also Rises (1926), and Men Without Women (1927) a second short story collection.

A Farewell to Arms

Main article: A Farewell to Arms

Published in 1929, A Farewell to Arms recounts the romance between Frederic Henry, an American soldier, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse.

The novel is heavily autobiographical: the plot was directly inspired by his relationship with Agnes von Kurowsky in Milan, and Catherine's parturition was inspired by the intense labor pains of Pauline in the birth of Patrick.

Death in the Afternoon

Main article: Death in the Afternoon

Death in the Afternoon, a book about bullfighting, was published in 1932.

Hemingway had become an aficionado of the sport after seeing the Pamplona fiesta of 1925, fictionalized in The Sun Also Rises.

In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway extensively discussed the metaphysics of bullfighting: the ritualized, almost religious practice.

Hemingway considered becoming a bullfighter himself and showed middling aptitude in several novieros before deciding that writing was his true and only suitable professional metier.

In his writings on Spain, he was influenced by the Spanish master, Pío Baroja.

When Hemingway won the Nobel Prize, he traveled to see Baroja, then on his deathbed, specifically to tell him he thought Baroja deserved the prize more than he.

Baroja agreed, and something of the usual Hemingway tiff with another writer ensued despite his original good intentions.

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Main article: The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Walkway named for Ernest Hemingway, Ronda, Spain

In 1938—along with his only full-length play, titled The Fifth Column—49 stories were published in the collection The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.

Hemingway's intention was, as he openly stated in his foreword, to write more.

Many of the stories that make up this collection can be found in other abridged collections, including In Our Time, Men Without Women, Winner Take Nothing, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Some of the collection's important stories include Old Man at the Bridge, On The Quai at Smyrna, Hills Like White Elephants, One Reader Writes, The Killers and (perhaps most famously) A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.

While these stories are rather short, the book also includes much longer stories, among them The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Main article: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hotel Ambos Mundos, Havana, Hemingway's first residence in Cuba (1932–1939) where most of For Whom the Bell Tolls was written

In the spring of 1939, Francisco Franco and the Nationalists defeated the Republicans, ending the Spanish Civil War.

Hemingway lost an adopted homeland to Franco's fascists, and would later lose his beloved Key West, Florida, home due to his 1940 divorce.

A few weeks after the divorce, he married his companion of four years in Spain, Martha Gellhorn, his third wife.

His novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was written in Cuba, Key West, and at the Sun Valley Lodge in 1939.

It was finished in July 1940, and published the same year.

Hemingway would have been familiar with, and probably borrowed the title from the last line of John Donne's 1624 Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditations No. 17: "And therefore, never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

The long work, which is set during the Spanish Civil War, was based on real events and tells of an American, named Robert Jordan, fighting with Spanish soldiers, on the Republican side.

It was largely based on Hemingway's experience of living in Spain, and reporting on the war.

It is one of his most notable literary accomplishments.

Across the River and into the Trees

Main article: Across the River and into the Trees

Hemingway's first novel after For Whom the Bell Tolls was Across the River and into the Trees (1950), set in post-World War II Venice.

He may have derived the title from the last words of American Civil War Confederate General Stonewall Jackson.

Enamored of a young Italian girl (Adriana Ivancich) at the time, Hemingway wrote Across the River and into the Trees, as a romance between a war-weary Colonel Cantwell (based on his friend, then Colonel Charles Lanham) and the young Renata (clearly based on Adriana; "Renata" has an assonance with "rinata", meaning "reborn" in Italian).

The novel received largely bad reviews, many of which accused Hemingway of tastelessness, stylistic ineptitude, and sentimentality; however this criticism was not shared by all critics.

Later writing

After the World War II, Hemingway started work on The Garden of Eden, which was never finished and would be published posthumously in a much-abridged form in 1986.

At one stage, he planned a major trilogy which was to comprise, "The Sea When Young", "The Sea When Absent", and "The Sea in Being" (the latter eventually published in 1952 as The Old Man and the Sea).

He spent time in a small Italian town called Acciaroli (located approximately 136 km south of Napoli).

There was also a "Sea-Chase" story; three of these pieces were edited and stuck together as the posthumously published novel Islands in the Stream (1970).

One section of the sea trilogy was published as The Old Man and the Sea in 1952.

That novella's great success, both commercial and critical, satisfied and fulfilled Hemingway.

It earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953.

The next year, he was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Upon receiving the latter, he noted he would have been "happy; happier… if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer, Isak Dinesen".^[112]

These awards helped to restore his international reputation.

Posthumous works

Hemingway was still writing up to his death; most of the unfinished works which were Hemingway's sole creation have been published posthumously; they are A Moveable Feast, Islands in the Stream, The Nick Adams Stories (portions of which were previously unpublished), The Dangerous Summer, and The Garden of Eden.^[113]

According to Hemingway's friend, A.E. Hotchner, in 1956 Hemingway was reminded of a trunk left in the basement of the Ritz in Paris in which he found notebooks written when he lived in Paris in the 1920s.

Hemingway had his secretary transcribe the notebooks, and during the period he worked on A Dangerous Summer he finished the Paris manuscript also.

Hemingway gave both manuscripts to Hotchner to deliver to Scribner's.

After Hemingway's suicide, Scribner's published the novel in 1964 with the title A Moveable Feast.

A new edition of the novel has been published with revisions made by Hemingway's grandson.^[114]

In a note forwarding Islands in the Stream, Mary Hemingway indicated that she worked with Charles Scribner, Jr. on "preparing this book for publication from Ernest's original manuscript."μ

She also said, "Beyond the routine chores of correcting spelling and punctuation, we made some cuts in the manuscript, I feel Ernest would surely have made them himself.

"The book is all Ernest's.

"We have added nothing to it."

Some controversy has surrounded the publication of these works, insofar as it has been suggested it is not necessarily within the jurisdiction of Hemingway's relatives or publishers to determine whether these works should be made available to the public.

For example, scholars often disapprovingly note that the version of The Garden of Eden published by Scribner's in 1986, though in no way a revision of Hemingway's original words, nonetheless omits two-thirds of the original manuscript.^[115]

The Nick Adams Stories appeared posthumously in 1972.

What is now considered the definitive compilation of all of Hemingway's short stories was published as The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway, first compiled and published in 1987.

As well, in 1969 The Fifth Column and Four Stories Of The Spanish Civil War was published. It contains Hemingway's only full length play, The Fifth Column, which was previously published along with the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, along with four unpublished works written about Hemingway's experiences during the Spanish Civil War.

Hemingway was a prolific correspondent and, in 1981, many of his letters were published by Charles Scribner's Sons in Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters.

It was met with some controversy as Hemingway himself stated he never wished to publish his letters.

Further letters were published in a book of his correspondence with his editor, Max Perkins, The Only Thing that Counts 1996.

In 1999, another novel, entitled True at First Light, appeared under the name of Ernest Hemingway, though it was heavily edited by, his son Patrick Hemingway.

Six years later, Under Kilimanjaro, a re-edited and considerably longer version of True at First Light appeared.

In either edition, the novel is a fictional account of Hemingway's final African safari in 1953–1954.

He spent several months in Kenya with his fourth wife, Mary, before his near-fatal plane crashes.^[116]

Anticipation of the novel, whose manuscript was completed in 1956, adumbrates perhaps an unprecedentedly large critical battle over whether it is proper to publish the work (many sources mention that a new, light side of Hemingway will be seen as opposed to his canonical, macho image^[117]), even as editors Robert W. Lewis of University of North Dakota and Robert E. Fleming of University of New Mexico have pushed it through to publication; the novel was published 15 September 2005.

Also published posthumously were several collections of his work as a journalist.

These contain his columns and articles for Esquire Magazine, The North American Newspaper Alliance, and the Toronto Star; they include Byline: Ernest Hemingway edited by William White, and Hemingway: The Wild Years edited by Gene Z. Hanrahan.

Finally, a collection of introductions, forwards, public letters and other miscellanea was published as Hemingway and the Mechanism of Fame in 2005.

A long-term project is now underway to publish the thousands of letters Hemingway wrote during his lifetime.

The project is being undertaken as a joint venture by Penn State University and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Sandra Spanier, Professor of English and wife of Penn State president Graham Spanier, is serving as general editor of the collection.^[118]

Influence and legacy

The influence of Hemingway's writings on American literature was considerable and continues today. James Joyce called "A Clean, Well Lighted Place" "one of the best stories ever written".

(The same story also influenced several of Edward Hopper's best known paintings, most notably "Nighthawks."^[119] ) Pulp fiction and "hard boiled" crime fiction (which flourished from the 1920s to the 1950s) often owed a strong debt to Hemingway.

During World War II, J. D. Salinger met and corresponded with Hemingway, whom he acknowledged as an influence.^[120]

In one letter to Hemingway, Salinger wrote their talks "had given him his only hopeful minutes of the entire war", and jokingly "named himself national chairman of the Hemingway Fan Clubs".^[121]

Hunter S. Thompson often compared himself to Hemingway, and terse Hemingway-esque sentences can be found in his early novel, The Rum Diary.

Hemingway's terse prose style--"Nick stood up. He was all right."-- is known to have inspired Charles Bukowski, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Coupland, and many Generation X writers.

Hemingway's style also influenced Jack Kerouac and other Beat Generation writers.

Hemingway also provided a role model to fellow author and hunter Robert Ruark, who is frequently referred to as "the poor man's Ernest Hemingway".

Popular novelist Elmore Leonard, who has authored scores of western- and crime-genre novels, cites Hemingway as his preeminent influence, and this is evident in his tightly written prose.

Though Leonard has never claimed to write serious literature, he has said: "I learned by imitating Hemingway.... until I realized I didn't share his attitude about life. I didn't take myself or anything as seriously as he did."

Family

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Parents

Father: Clarence Hemingway. Born 12 September 1871, died 06 December1928. General practitioner and obstetrician.^[122]
Mother: Grace Hall Hemingway. Born 15 June 1872, died 28 June 1951

Siblings

Marcelline Hemingway. Born 15 January 1898, died 09 December 1963
Ursula Hemingway. Born 29 April 1902, died 30 October 1966
Madelaine Hemingway. Born 28 November 1904, died 14 January 1995
Carol Hemingway. Born 19 July 1911, died 27 October 2002
Leicester Hemingway. Born 01 April 1915, died 13 September 1982

Own families

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. Married 03 September 1921, divorced 04 April 1927, died January 22, 1979.

Son, John Hadley Nicanor "Jack" Hemingway (aka Bumby). Born 10 October 1923, died 01 December 1, 2000.

Granddaughter, Joan (Muffet) Hemingway

Granddaughter, Margaux Hemingway. Born 16 February 1954, died 02 July 1996

Granddaughter, Mariel Hemingway. Born 22 November 1961

Great-Granddaughter, Dree Hemingway. Born 1987

Pauline Pfeiffer. Married 10 May 1927, divorced 04 November 1940, 21 died October 1951.

Son, Patrick. Born 28 June 1928.

Granddaughter, Mina Hemingway

Son, Gregory Hemingway (called 'Gig' by Hemingway; later called himself 'Gloria'). Born 12 November 1931, died 01 October 2001.

Grandchildren, Patrick, Edward, Sean, Brendan, Vanessa, Maria, Adiel, John Hemingway and Lorian Hemingway

Martha Gellhorn. Married 21 November 1940, divorced 21 December 1945, died 15 February 1998.
Mary Welsh. Married 14 March 1946, died 26 November 1986.

On 19 August 1946, she miscarried, due to ectopic pregnancy.

Honors

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During his lifetime, Hemingway was awarded:

Silver Medal of Military Valor (medaglia d'argento) in World War I;
Bronze Star (War Correspondent-Military Irregular in World War II), 1947;
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit, 1954;
Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea, 1953;
Nobel Prize in Literature for lifetime literary achievement, 1954;
two medals for bull-fighting.

A minor planet, discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, was named for him—3656 Hemingway.^[123]

On 17 July 1989, the United States Postal Service issued a 25-cent postage stamp honoring Hemingway.^[124]

Tributes

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The American Mercury with Al Hirschfeld's caricature of Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway is the implied subject of the Ray Bradbury story, The Kilimanjaro Device. Using the plot device of a time machine, the tale creates a loving tribute that undoes his suicide. The story appears in the Bradbury collection I Sing The Body Electric.
In 1999, Michael Palin retraced the footsteps of Hemingway, in Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure, a BBC television documentary, one hundred years after the birth of his favorite writer. The journey took him through many sites including Chicago, Paris, Italy, Africa, Key West, Cuba, and Idaho. Together with photographer Basil Pao, Palin also created a book version of the trip. The text of the book is available for free on Palin's website. Four years earlier, Palin also wrote a book, Hemingway's Chair, about an assistant post-office manager with an obsession with Hemingway.
Since 1987, actor-writer Ed Metzger has portrayed the life of Ernest Hemingway in his one-man stage show, Hemingway: On The Edge, featuring stories and anecdotes from Hemingway's own life and adventures. Metzger quotes Hemingway, "My father told me never kill anything you're not going to eat. At the age of 9, I shot a porcupine. It was the toughest lesson I ever had." More information about the show is available at his website
Hemingway's World War II experiences in Cuba have been novelized by Dan Simmons as a spy thriller, The Crook Factory.
Hemingway, played by Jay Underwood, was a recurring character in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. In one episode, set in Northern Italy in 1916, Hemingway the ambulance driver gives young Indy (Sean Patrick Flanery) advice about women—only to discover that he and Indy are rivals for the heart of the same woman. (The episode shows Indy unwittingly influencing Hemingway's future writing, by reciting the Elizabethan poem, A Farewell to Arms by George Peele.) In another episode, set in Chicago in 1920, Hemingway the newspaper reporter helps Indy and a young Eliot Ness in their investigation of the murder of gangster James Colosimo.
The 1993 motion picture Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, about the friendship of two retired men, one Irish, one Cuban, in a seaside town in Florida, starred Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine, Sandra Bullock, and Piper Laurie.
The 1996 motion picture In Love and War, based on the book Hemingway in Love and War by Henry S. Villard and James Nagel, is the story of the young reporter Ernest Hemingway (played by Chris O'Donnell) as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty, he is injured and ends up in the hospital, where he falls in love with his nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky (Sandra Bullock).
In the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill, Bond (played by Timothy Dalton) meets with M at the Hemingway House. When asked for his gun after handing in his resignation, Bond exclaims "I guess it's a Farewell To Arms," in reference to the work of the same name.
Joyce Carol Oates wrote a loosely biographical short story of the last days of Hemingway called Papa at Ketchum, 1961 in her 2008 book Wild Nights.
Ska/Punk band Streetlight Manifesto references Hemingway in their 2003 song "Here's to LIfe". The song discusses Streetlight Manifesto's lead singer Tomas Kalnoky heroes which include Hemingway. "Hemingway never seemed to mind the banalities of a normal life and I find, it gets harder every time So he aimed the shotgun into the blue Placed his face in between the twoand sighed, "Here's To Life!"
Every year for the past thirty years the International Imitation Hemingway Competition, also knowing as the "Bad Hemingway," has held a competition for the best worst story written in the style of Ernest Hemingway.^[125]

Works

Bibliography of Ernest Hemingway

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c "Ernest Hemingway Biography: Childhood". The Hemingway Resource Center. http://www.lostgeneration.com/childhood.htm. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
^ Meyers p.8
^ Meyers p.4
^ Meyers p. 3
^ ^a ^b Meyers p. 13
^ Meyers p.17
^ Meyers p.19
^ ""Lardner Connections"". http://www.tridget.com/friends.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
^ Meyers p.23
^ Desnoyers p. 2
^ "Star style and rules for writing". The Kansas City Star. KansasCity.com. http://www.kcstar.com/hemingway/ehstarstyle.shtml. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
^ ^nbMany such anecdotes are compiled at The centennial commemoration page of the Kansas City Star
^ ^a ^b ^c Desnoyers p. 3
^ Mayers p. 27
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Putnam, Thomas (2006). "Hemingway on War and Its Aftermath". Prologue. The National Archives. http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/spring/hemingway.html. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
^ Mayers p. 30
^ Mayers p. 31
^ Mayers p. 37
^ Mayers p. 40
^ Mayers p. 41
^ Meyers p. 48
^ ^a ^b Meyers p. 51–53
^ "Home to Cedarvale: Bathurst To Vaughan, Eglinton to St. Clair". http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/specials/posthomes/story.html?id=413f4f0b-707e-4cac-a142-55e1b1732941.
^ Meyers p. 56
^ Meyers p. 58
^ Meyers p. 60
^ Brown, Alan (2004). Literary Landmarks of Chicago. Starhill Press. ISBN ISBN 0-913515-50-7.
^ Meyers p. 61–62
^ Meyers p. 61
^ ^a ^b ^c "Ernest Hemingway Biography:The Paris Years". The Hemingway Resource Center. http://www.lostgeneration.com/paris.htm. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
^ IMeyers pp. 77-81
^ Meyers pp.73-74
^ ^a ^b Meyers p. 82
^ ^a ^b Desnoyers p. 5
^ Meyers pp. 69-70
^ Meyers p. 123
^ Desnoyers p. 4
^ Meyers p. 126
^ Meyers p. 127
^ Meyers pp. 159-160
^ Meyers p. 189
^ Meyers p. 172
^ Desnoyers p. 8
^ Meyers p. 174
^ Meyers pp.184 - 185
^ Meyers p. 195
^ Meyers p. 204
^ ^a ^b Meyers p. 208
^ Meyers p.2
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Ernest Hemingway Biography: Key West". The Hemingway Resource Center. http://www.lostgeneration.com/childhood.htm. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
^ Meyers p. 215
^ Meyers p. 222
^ Meyers p. 226
^ Meyers p. 224
^ Meyers p. 227
^ Mellow p. 361
^ Mellow p. 402
^ Meyers p. 205
^ ^a ^b Desnoyers p. 9
^ Ondaatje, Christopher (30 October 2001). "Bewitched by Africa's strange beauty". The Independent (independent.co.uk). http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/christopher-ondaatje--bewitched-by-africas-strange-beauty-633122.html. Retrieved 16 September 2009.
^ Meyers pp. 261-264
^ Meyers p. 280
^ Meyers p. 292
^ Koch p. 87
^ Meyers p. 311
^ Koch p. 164
^ Meyers p. 308-309
^ Meyers p. 298
^ Meyers p. 316-317
^ Koch p. 134
^ Thomas p. 385
^ Meyers p. 321
^ Thomas p. 833
^ Desnoyers p. 10
^ Desnoyers p. 11
^ Meyers p. 334
^ Meyers p. 326
^ Meyers p. 342
^ Meyers p. 356
^ Meyers p. 361
^ Meyers p. 398
^ Meyers p. 400
^ Meyers p. 405
^ Meyers p. 408
^ Mellow p. 535
^ Mellow p. 541
^ Meyers p. 411
^ Meyers p. 394
^ Meyers p. 416
^ ^a ^b ^c Meyers pp. 420-421
^ Mellow pp. 548-550
^ ^a ^b Desnoyers p. 12
^ ^a ^b Meyers p. 440
^ Meyers p. 465
^ Mellow pp. 561
^ "Ernest Hemingway Quick Facts". encarta. http://encarta.msn.com/media_461577223/Ernest_Hemingway_Quick_Facts.html.
^ "Hemingway's Marriage to Mary Welsh. His last days.". http://www.ernest.hemingway.com/marywelsh.htm.
^ ^a ^b "Homing To The Stream: Ernest Hemingway In Cuba". http://www.ernest.hemingway.com/cuba.htm.
^ Hemingway, Ernest 1951 The Shot. True the men’s magazine. April 1951. pp. 25–28
^ Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto 1980 The Dictatorship of Rhetoric/the Rhetoric of Dictatorship: Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, and Roa Bastos. Latin American Research Review, Vol. 15, No. 3 (1980), pp. 205–228 "For example, the assassination of Manolo Castro is retold by alluding to Hemingway's "The Shot,…""
^ "Castro-Hemingway-not-friends". http://hemingway-castro-foes.blogspot.com/.
^ Raimundo, Daniel Efrain 1994 Habla el Coronel Orlando Piedra (Coleccion Cuba y sus Jueces), Ediciones Universal ISBN ISBN Pages. 93–94 refer to the death of Manolo Castro, and offers the insight that it was Rolando Masferrer’s men who, rather than the police who, were chasing after Fidel Castro with lethal intent. According to this account Castro is captured in the company of a woman and child as he tries to flee to Venezuela via the Cuban airport of Rancho Boyeros south of Havana by the Cuban Bureau of Investigation as witnessed by sergeant of that organization Joaquin Tasas. Castro is released the next day. This matter is a little odd since Fidel Castro was believed to have organized the death of Manolo Castro (p. 99). This version is a close fit the scenario described in "The Shot/."
^ The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles by Stephen Koch, published 2005 ISBN
^ "Finca Vigía". http://www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure/finca.html.
^ "Restauracion Museo Hemingway (Official website) - Finca Vigía" (in Spanish). Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural- Cuba. 2009. http://www.cnpc.cult.cu/cnpc/museos/heming%20restauration%20works.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
^ MILLMAN, JOEL (2007-02-22). "Hemingway's Ties to Bar - Still Move the Mojitos". Wall Street Journal. http://www.startupjournal.com/franchising/franchising/20070222-millman.html. Retrieved 2007-06-01.
^ ^a ^b Meyers, Jeffrey (1985). "Suicide and Aftermath". Hemingway: A Biography. London: Macmillan. pp. 550–560. ISBN 0-333-42126-4.
^ Baker, Carlos (1969). Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. pp. 668. ISBN 0-684-14740-8.
^ "Ernest Hemingway". http://wais.stanford.edu/Spain/spain_hemingway0799.html.
^ (Wagner-Martin, 2000) p. 43 describes his condition in August 1947 as including high blood pressure, diabetes, depression and possible haemochromatosis.
^ "www.ernesthemingwayfestival.org". http://www.ernesthemingwayfestival.org.
^ From The New York Times Book Review, November 7, 1954.
^ Information about these posthumous Hemingway works was taken from Charles Scribner, Jr.'s 1987 Preface to The Garden of Eden.
^ Hotchner, A.E. (July 19 2009). "Don't Touch 'A Movable Feast'". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/opinion/20hotchner.html?_r=1. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
^ BookRags makes this quantitative note; it also reveals some more information about the publication of The Garden of Eden and offers some discussion of thematic content.
^ The Kent State University Press is the official source for this new novel's release.
^ See the University of North Dakota feature of editor Robert W. Lewis, for example.
^ "hemingwayx.html". http://www.psu.edu/ur/archives/intercom_2002/May9/hemingway.html.
^ Wells, Walter, Silent Theater: The Art of Edward Hopper, London/New York: Phaidon, 2007
^ Lamb, Robert Paul (Winter 1996). "Hemingway and the creation of twentieth-century dialogue - American author Ernest Hemingway" (reprint). Twentieth Century Literature. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n4_v42/ai_20119140/pg_17. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
^ Baker, Carlos (1969). Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. pp. 420, 646. ISBN 0-02-001690-5.
^ Stewart, Matthew (2001). Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's "In our Time": A Guide for Students and Readers. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 1-57113-017-9, 9781571130174. http://books.google.com/books?id=NRxflHtRVWYC&pg=PA2.
^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (5th ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 307. ISBN 3-540-00238-3. http://books.google.com/books?q=3656+Hemingway+1978+QX.
^ Scott catalog # 2418.
^ International Imitation Hemingway Competition article

References

Baker, Carlos (1969). Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. ISBN 0-02-001690-5.
Baker, Carlos (1972), Hemingway: The Writer as Artist (4th ed.), Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-01305-5
Baker, Carlos (1962), Ernest Hemingway: Critiques of Four Major Novels, A Scribner research anthology, Scribner, ISBN 0-684-41157-1
Desnoyers, Megan Floyd. "John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Online Resources: Ernest Hemingway: A Storyteller's Legacy". http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Hemingway+Archive/Online+Resources/eh_storyteller+Page+3.htm.
Koch, Stephen (2005). The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles. New York: Counterpoint. pp. 87–164. ISBN 1-58243-280-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=Zax4-2pV8gsC&dq=stephen+koch+hemingway+dos+passos&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=pgKKhV8mzA&sig=vD0uGLSRMCtrMlot5U3bgApwDcg&hl=en&ei=lvazSpWANNTQlAegsYn5Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. Retrieved September 18, 20009.
Meyers, Jeffrey (1985). Hemingway: A Biography. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-42126-4.
Mellow, James R. (1992). Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. New York: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-37777-3.
Putnam, Thomas (2006). "Hemingway on War and Its Aftermath". The National Archives. http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/spring/hemingway.html. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
Thomas, Hugh (2001). The Spanish Civil War. New York: Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-75515-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=6I126r99NQ4C&pg=RA3-PA302&lpg=RA3-PA302&dq=spanish+civil+war+hugh+thomas+hemingway&source=bl&ots=GEwV-ASQYk&sig=FkC-e1R8AXaEzmZUbYbOKKP84bo&hl=en&ei=EjG0StDIKdK8lAfU9ZWhBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=hemingway&f=false. Retrieved September 18, 2009.
Stewart, Matthew (2001). Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's "In our Time": A Guide for Students and Readers. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 1-57113-017-9, 9781571130174. http://books.google.com/books?id=NRxflHtRVWYC&pg=PA2.

External links

Hemingway's grave at Find A grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1232

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Ernest Hemingway

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway.org.uk
Timeless Hemingway
The Charles D. Field Collection of Ernest Hemingway(call number M0440; 1.25 linear ft) are housed in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Stanford University Libraries
The Hemingway Society
New York Times obituary, July 3, 1961
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure Based on a PBS lecture series narrated by Michael Palin.
CNN: A Hemingway Retrospective
Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Florida, official website
The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center
Hemingway’s Reading 1910–1940
eHemingway.com The Hemingway Social Network
Works by or about Ernest Hemingway in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Hemingway's work on IBList
Stephen Koch, “The Breaking Point: Hemingway, dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles” reviewed by George Packer
Ernest Hemingway's Collection at The University of Texas at Austin

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Novels	The Torrents of Spring (1926) · The Sun Also Rises (1926) · A Farewell to Arms (1929) · To Have and Have Not (1937) · For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) · Across the River and into the Trees (1950) · The Old Man and the Sea (1952) · Islands in the Stream (1970) · The Garden of Eden (1986)

Short stories	"Big Two-Hearted River" (1924) · "Soldier's Home" (1925) · "Cat in the Rain" (1925) · "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926) · "A Canary for One" (1926) · "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927) · "The Killers" (1927) · "The Undefeated" (1927) · "A Day's Wait" (1933) · "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936) · "The Capital of the World" (1936) · "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936) · "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (?) · "Adventures of a Young Man" (?)

Short story collections	Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) · In Our Time (1925) · Men Without Women (1927) · Winner Take Nothing (1933) · The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936) · The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938) · The Essential Hemingway (1947) · The Hemingway Reader (1953) · The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969) · The Nick Adams Stories (1972) · The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987) · The Collected Stories (1995)

Plays	A Short Happy Life (1961) · The Hemingway Hero (1967)

Poetry	88 Poems (1979)

Non-fiction	Death in the Afternoon (1932) · Green Hills of Africa (1935) · Hemingway, The Wild Years (1962) · A Moveable Feast (1964) · By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) · Ernest Hemingway: Cub Reporter (1970) · Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) · The Dangerous Summer (1985) · Dateline: Toronto (1985) · True at First Light (1999 memoir) · Under Kilimanjaro (2005) · On Paris (On) (2008)

Film adaptations	A Farewell to Arms (1932) · For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) · To Have and Have Not (1944) · The Killers (1946) · The Macomber Affair (1947) · The Breaking Point (1950) · The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) · The Killers (1956) · The Sun Also Rises (1957) · A Farewell to Arms (1957) · The Old Man and the Sea (1958) · Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) · The Killers (1964) · For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965) · Islands in the Stream (1977) · The Sun Also Rises (1984) · In Love and War (1996) · The Old Man and the Sea (1999)

TV adaptations	The Old Man and the Sea (1990)

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NAME	Hemingway, Ernest Miller
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DATE OF BIRTH	July 21, 1899(1899-07-21)
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oak Park, Illinois
DATE OF DEATH	July 2, 1961
PLACE OF DEATH	Ketchum, Idaho

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Contents

Biography

Early life

World War I

Post-war years (Toronto and Chicago)

Paris

Key West and the Caribbean

Spanish Civil War

Cuba and World War II

Cuba and later years

Suicide

Writings

Early writing

A Farewell to Arms

Death in the Afternoon

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Across the River and into the Trees

Later writing

Posthumous works

Influence and legacy

Family

Parents

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Own families

Honors

Tributes

Works

See also

Notes

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