The Michigan Hemingway Society has permanently loaned its collection (orignally donated by David and Stephanie Meeker) of nearly 250 letters between Hemingway's childhood friend Marjorie Bump (Main) and writer Donald St.
Presentations and panels on all aspects of Hemingway Studies are welcome.
Composer Michael Daugherty (michaeldaugherty.net
May 25-28, 2017
Boston, MA
http://americanliteratureassociation.org/
The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor two panels at the upcoming ALA Conference:
Hemingway & War
Kirk Curnutt is professor and chair of English at Troy University's Montgomery Campus. He is the author of Ernest Hemingway and the Expatriate Modernist Movement (2000), Coffee with Hemingway (2007, with a preface by John Updike), and the forthcoming A Reader's Guide to Hemingway's To Have and Have Not. He has served on the board since 2005.
Verna Kale is Associate Research Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University and Associate Editor of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway.
Anita Thompson has returned the trophy elk horns that her late husband, the gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, stole from Hemingway’s house in Ketchum, Idaho, over 50 years ago. As a young journalist in 1964, Thompson traveled to Idaho to write about Hemingway’s suicide and, taken with the antlers, left with more than a story. Thompson remained embarrassed and remorseful about the theft and, in early August, his widow contacted the Ketchum Community Library in order to make preparations to return the trophy, which has been given to Seán Hemingway.
At Misericordia University, an exhibit on “Hemingway and the Veneto” will run until December 10th. The exhibit, which is on loan from Venice International University, will feature various photographs focused on the writer and his attachment to no
The inaugural “Hemingway’s Wyoming” retreat, which was launched by Darla Worden, recently ran from 12-14 August. Similar to her Left Bank Writers Retreat in Paris, workshop participants renew their creative energy by learning about how place—in this case, sites in Sheridan and the Big Horn Mountains—influenced Hemingway's writing. Worden's
