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Out Now:  The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 5 (1932-1934).  Edited by Sandra Spanier and Miriam B. Mandel and published by Cambridge University Press.  

Read Dr. Spanier's blog post, "Reading Hemingway's Mail" on the Cambridge University Press website.

Ruchika Tomar, A Prayer for Travelers (Riverhead)

Critically-acclaimed debut novelist Ruchika Tomar is the winner of the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, for A Prayer for Travelers (Riverhead).

Award citation:

Coronavirus exposure actions:

The PEN/Hemingway festivities scheduled for April 5 are canceled and will be rescheduled for a later date (TBD).

The JFK Library, NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) and all Presidential Libraries, are closed to the public until further notice. 

The Florida Hemingway Society is offering a $500 Award for the best essay on Hemingway and the Arts. The award is open to all Florida College or University students. Submissions are due by March 21, 2020. See details at www.floridahemingwaysociety.org/news/2020/2/25/fhs-essay-contest

Many of us recall Tim O’Brien’s keynote lecture in Oak Park, “Timmy and Tad and Papa and I” a 2016 conference highlight. You can now time-travel back to that magical night in Lund Auditorium at Dominican University by enjoying a video of that keynote presentation.

Hemingway's Toronto apartment, unit 19 of 1597-99 Bathurst Street, is for sale.  Hemingway lived in the apartment from 1923-1924 while working as a journalist for the Toronto Star.  Hemingway and Hadley were in Toronto for the birth of their son John (Bumby), who was born on October 10, 1923.  To see some current pictures, visit:  

https://www.thestar.com/business/real_estate/2019/04/08/ernest-hemingways-former-toronto-home-up-for-sale.html

The restoration centre built by the Cuban National Cultural Heritage Council and Finca Vigia Foundation of the United States is located on the 15-acre (6-hectare) property where Hemingway lived in a tree-shaded, airy Spanish-style home.  For more information, click here.

Critically-acclaimed debut author Tommy Orange is the winner of the 2019 PEN/Hemingway Award for his novel There There (Knopf), PEN America announced today. Honoring a distinguished first novel, Tommy Orange will receive $25,000 underwritten by the Hemingway Family and the Hemingway Foundation, as well as a month-long Residency Fellowship at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, a retreat for artists and writers, valued at $10,000.

After nearly twenty years, the Clarke Historical Library’s Hemingway Collection opened in February 2019, and will run through September. For more information about the exhibit, including its catalog, please see the exhibit booklet.