Volume 4 Hemingway Letters--20% discount for Society members
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway
Volume 4. 1929 - 1931
Edited by Sandra Spanier and Miriam B. Mandel
SAMLA - 2018 Conference
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
November 2-4, 2018
Birmingham, Alabama
The Hemingway Society Session
THINGS FALL APART: ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND THE GREAT WAR
On November 11, 1918, the Great War finally ended.
In 1919 William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming" was first published. The opening stanza contains the most frequently quoted lines of modern poetry written in English-lines 3-4.
Biographers Speak at the JFK Library
On October 30th 2017, James McGrath Morris (author of The Ambulance Drivers) and Steve Paul (author of Hemingway at Eighteen) presented on Hemingway and the First World War at the JFK Library and Museum.
First Short Story Discovered
Sandra Spanier and Brewster Chamberlin discovered Hemingway's first extant short story in a notebook while sifting through other author-related materials located in the Bruce family archives. The story, which was composed in September 1909, is a 14-page series of letters addressed to his parents in which the young Hemingway recounts a fictional trip to Ireland and Scotland.
AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION 29th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Call for Papers
American Literature Association Annual Conference
May 24-27, 2018
San Francisco, CA
www.AmericanLiteratureAssociation.org/
The Hemingway Society will sponsor three panels at the upcoming ALA Conference:
Hemingway Open Panel - Any Hemingway-Related Topic
Young Hemingway Statue Unveiled
A new statue of Hemingway has been unveiled in Petoskey, MI. The statue, which was sculpted by artist Andy Sacksteder, celebrates the writer's early years and connection to northern Michigan.
Oak Park Museum to Close Doors, Plans to Open Writing Center
The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park intends to close the Hemingway museum by the end of 2017. According to John Berry, some of the contents from the museum will hopefully be digitized while others might be available for viewing at locations such as the Oak Park Public Library. The foundation will now begin fundraising for a new project: the construction of a $1 million writing center at Hemingway's birthplace home.