If Ernest Hemingway were alive today, he would have just turned 117 years old. Just think how many more amazing books he could have written if he were still alive. Tragically, Hemingway committed ...

Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. His most popular work, The Old Man and the Sea, earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and in 1954 Hemingway won the Nobel ...

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

In the late 1990s, reader Sara Prem was living in Lenexa, Kansas when she took a Kansas City history bus tour that passed a home in Mission Hills. Her tour guide pointed out a window in the home and ...

Hemingway's love of nature and writers' discipline were instilled in him from a young age. Often fishing and hunting with his father as a young boy, Ernest Hemingway fostered a love for the great ...

In an age of endless words, Hemingway wrote with a rifleman’s precision. Here’s how. He didn’t waste ink. He stripped sentences down to their bare bones and nerves. His sentences were clean, sharp, ...

Today's Purple Prose comes from a reading of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Many literary scholars saw the book as the first of Hemingway's many classics. Geoffrey Delicatecharacter is not one ...

When UC Davis professor emeritus Peter Hays teaches a course on the writings of Ernest Hemingway, he naturally assigns some of the famous author’s short stories and novels as texts that students are ...