Ernest Hemingway Papers. 1899 - 1977. Incoming Letters

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961

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Born in 1899, Ernest Hemingway was the second of six children born to Grace Hall and Clarence Edmonds Hemingway. Ernest developed a love of literature and music from his mother, a trained opera singer and music teacher after her marriage, and gained a keen interest in outdoor sports--hunting, fishing, woodscraft--from his father, a doctor and avid naturalist. Divided between the family's home in Oak Park, Illinois, and their summer cottage on Lake Waldoon in Michigan, Ernest's chil...

Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998

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Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8, 1908 – February 15, 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945. She died in 1998 in an apparent suicide at the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind. The Martha Gellhorn Prize f...

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

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Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American l...

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

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Gertrude Stein (b. February 3, 1874, Allegheny, PA-d. July 27, 1946, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. She moved to Paris and acquired a love for modern painting. Stein began building a personal collection of major artists, many of whom became her friends and formed the core of her regular salons. In 1907, as Stein was struggling to establish herself as a writer, she met Alice Babette Toklas, a fellow American who had come to P...

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some...

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

Ross, Lillian, 1918-2017

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Lillian Ross (1918-2017) was an American journalist and author, born Lillian Rosovsky in Syracuse, New York. She was raised partially in Syracuse and partially in Brooklyn. She was a staff writer for The New Yorker starting in 1945 during World War II and working nearly up to her death. She wrote articles with a novelistic reporting style, which would later be called “new journalism” or “literary journalism,” including early stories about Ernest Hemingway and John Huston’s filming of The Red Bad...

Theisen, Earl

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Photographer and film historian; b. 1903. From the description of Earl Theisen collection, 1773-1935 (bulk 1895-1934). (Margaret Herrick Library). WorldCat record id: 70938787 ...

Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982

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Ingrid Bergman (b. 29 August 1915, Stockholm, Sweden-d. 29 August 1982, London, England) was a Swedish acrtess. After starring in Intermezzo (1939), she rose to fame in the US. Bergman is well known for Casablance (1942), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), and several Alfred Hitchock films. She was married Petter Aron Lindstrom and later married director Roberto Rossellini....

Masson, André, 1896-1987.

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André Masson was a French Surrealist painter, sculptor, illustrator and engraver. He died in 1987. From the description of Lasalle mort à Wagram. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82093063 ...

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968

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Margaret Gemmell, later van Judah, was a friend of Steinbeck's during their stay at Stanford University, 1925-26. Included with the papers is a manuscript in her own hand describing her friendship with Steinbeck. From the description of John Steinbeck papers, 1925-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866392 This is the producer's copy, property of Oscar Serlin; the play ran from 7 Apr. to 6 June, 1942. From the description of The moon is down, a play in 3 acts...

Peirce, Waldo, 1884-1970

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Nationally recognized American artist Waldo Peirce (1884-1970) was known for illustrating envelopes. Peirce was a Harvard alumnus, having earned his Harvard AB 1908; the addressee, William Bingham (1889-1971) earned his Harvard AB 1916 and served as director of athletics at Harvard from 1926 to 1951. These envelopes were sent during a period when the Harvard football team was at a low point and being criticized by the press. From the description of Illustrated envelopes addressed to ...

Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961

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Sanford, Marcelline Hemingway, 1898-1963

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Malraux, André, 1901-1976

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French writer, government official, archaeologist, hero of antifascist resistence in Spanish Civil War and World War II. Writer of fictional and non-fictional works including "Condition humaine", "Tentation de l'Occident" and "Noyers de l'Altenbourg". Minister of Information, 1945-1946, Minister of State responsible for culture, 1959-1969. From the description of Memoirs. ca. 1966. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 221087314 Author, adventurer, and stat...

Baker, Carlos, 1909-1987

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Carlos Baker was professor of English literature and chair of the English Dept. at Princeton University, and Ernest Hemingway's official biographer. From the description of Carlos Baker letters to John C. Buck, 1953-1961. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 41901194 American literary critic, poet, and novelist, Baker is best known for his biography of Ernest Hemingway. He was a professor of English at Princeton, 1938-1953, and its Woodrow Wilson Pr...

Hemingway, Leicester, 1915-1982

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American author, brother of Ernest Hemingway. From the description of Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Collection, 1964-1966. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122589970 Leicester C. Hemingway, only brother to the great American novelist Ernest Hemingway, was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on April 1, 1915. Like Ernest, Leicester was a writer, world traveler, and avid outdoorsman. He worked as a news...

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939

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English novelist and influential editor of literary journals; also biographer, art critic, and poet. Born Ford Madox Hueffer; changed last name to Ford in 1919. From the description of W.H. Hudson : some reminiscences / by Ford Madox Hueffer, 1920s? (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 228079051 From the description of The saddest story, 1915? (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 228079018 From the description of Ford Madox Ford diary, 1938...

Strater, Henry, 1896-1987

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Painter; Ogunquit, Me. Died 1987. From the description of Henry Strater interview, 1973 Sept. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190451 From the description of Henry Strater interview, 1971 Oct. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190465 Director of the Museum of Art of Ogunquit and artist. From the description of Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1961-1965. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213363604 Painter; Ogunquit...

Macleish, Archibald

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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet. Kaiser is a professor of comparative literature at Harvard. From the description of Letters to Walter Jacob Kaiser, 1955-1957 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367921 MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard (1949-1962). From the description of Scratch : manu...

Matthews, Herbert Lionel, 1900-

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American journalist and author. From the description of Herbert L. Matthews Collection, 1929-1949. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122640587 From the description of Herbert Lionel Matthews papers, 1961-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867344 Herbert Matthews worked as a journalist for the New York Times for 45 years. Starting as a secretary in the business office, Matthews rose t...

Fenton, Charles A.

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Charles A. Fenton, author and educator, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1919. He is the author of The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway: The Early Years (1954) and Stephen Vincent Benét: The Life and Times of an American Man of Letters (1958). He also edited The Best Short Stories of World War II: An American Anthology (1957) and Selected Letters of Stephen Vincent Benét (1960). He taught English at Yale from 1948 to 1958, and at Duke University from 1958 until his death in 1960. ...

Dietrich, Marlene, 1901-1992

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Marlene Dietrich (b. December 27, 1901, Berlin, Germany–d. May 6, 1992, Paris, France) was a German actress and singer. Throughout her long career, spanning from the 1910s to the 1980s, she maintained popularity by continually reinventing herself. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich acted on the stage and in silent films. Dietrich starred in Hollywood films such as Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932), and Desire (1936). Throughout World War II, she was a high-profile entertainer in the United St...

Tracy, Spencer, 1900-1967

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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

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American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...

Von Kurowsky, Agnes

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Agnes Von Kurowsky (1892-1984) was a Red Cross nurse in Italy during World War I and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. From the description of Von Kurowsky, Agnes, 1892-1984 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10571249 ...

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970

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American novelist. From the description of One Man's Initiation, 1917, 1968-1969. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937079 American author, From the description of State of the nation [manuscript], 1944. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647807708 American author. From the description of Screenplay by John Dos Passos [manuscript], 1934 October 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647830975 F...

Lanham, C. T. (Charles Trueman), 1902-1978.

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Charles Trueman Lanham (1902-1978) was born in Washington, D.C. He received his commission in the infantry from West Point in 1924, and later saw duty in the Panama Canal Zone from 1927 to 1930. He was an instructor at the Infantry School from 1932 to 1934, and served with the National Guard Bureau from 1935 to 1938. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1939, then at the training branch of the War Department in 1941 and 1942. He was head of visual aids at headquarters of Arm...

Scribner, Charles, 1921-1995

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Publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of Chales Scribner, Jr. : oral history, 1988. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309744329 ...

Mowrer, Hadley Hemingway, 1891-1979

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Miller, Madelaine Hemingway, 1904-

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Plimpton, George

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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

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Sinclair Lewis (b. Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, MN–d. January 10, 1951, Rome, Italy) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. ...

Hayward, Leland, 1902-1971

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Theatrical, motion picture, television producer and agent, Leland Hayward was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska on September 13, 1902. His father, Colonel William Hayward, was a well-known lawyer who would eventually become his son's personal attorney. His parents divorced several years later, both remarrying. Hayward studied at Princeton University, but dropped out after his first year. Following a brief career as a journalist in New York, his interests led him to show bu...

Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947

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Editor at and vice-president of Charles Scribner's Sons. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1938-1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122629156 Maxwell Evarts Perkins was one of the most importnat editors in American literary history. Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, born in Asheville, N.C., became a friend of Thomas Wolfe in 1933. In 1935, Charles Scriber's Sons published her only book, a semi-autobiographical work titled Fo...

Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967

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Author; interviewee married Alan Campbell. From the description of Reminiscences of Dorothy Rothschild Parker : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158240 Dorothy Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, in an upper-middle-class family of mixed heritage. Estranged from her parents due to her dislike of her strict, devout stepmother, she read voraciously and wrote verse. Seeking a career in literature, she worked for Vogue,...

Arnold, Lloyd, 1935-1976

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Gingrich, Arnold.

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Founder and publisher of Esquire magazine. From the description of Arnold Gingrich papers, 1932-1975. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419600 Founding editor of Esquire Magazine in 1933 and its publisher beginning in 1952, Arnold Gingrich was a distinguished author, journalist, and nurturer of literary talent. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan December 5, 1903, he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1925. He began his career writing advertis...

Miró, Joan, 1893-1983

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Spanish painter. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Mallorca, to John Rewald, 1971 Dec. 26 and 1972 Oct. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871537 French painter. From the description of Aidez l'Espagne (poster), 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83814624 ...

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Mason, Jane K. (Jane Kendall), 1909-1980

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Jane Mason was born Jane Coyle in Tuxedo Park, NY, on June 24, 1909. Jane took the name Kendall when her mother remarried. While studying art at the Briarcliff School in New York, Jane was presented to Washington, D.C. society. On June 11, 1929, Jane married George Grant Mason, an executive with Pan American Airways in Cuba. The Masons became friends of Ernest and Pauline Hemingway and introduced the Hemingways into Cuban society. From the description of Mason, Jane K. (Jane Kendall)...

Grey, Zane, 1872-1939

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Zane Grey was born Pearl Zane Grey on January 31, 1872 in Zanesville, Ohio to Lewis Grey and Alice Josephine (Zane) Grey. He earned a degree in dentistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1896. From 1898 to 1904 he lived in New York City and had an unsuccessful dentistry practice. At this time he wrote his first book, Betty Zane, about his Ohio ancestors. In 1904 he moved to Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, where he met Lina Elise Roth. They were married in 1905. Grey was an avid outdoorsman who e...

Breit, Harvey.

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Beach, Sylvia.

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Ordóñez Araujo, Antonio 1932-1998

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Hotchner, A. E.

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American author and playwright; born Aaron Edward Hotchner in St. Louis, Mo. in 1920, graduated from Washington University and Washington University School of Law in 1941. From the description of Papers, 1944-1990. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 26089694 ...

Speiser, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph), 1880-

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born Sept. 24, 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. He began writing while a student at Princeton University. He met his wife, Zelda, while serving in the US Army stationed in Alabama. His novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and he became an instant success. He published he Great Gatsby in 1925. Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940 of a heart attack at age 44 while living in Los Angeles and working for the film industry....

Ivancich, Adriana

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Scribner, Charles, 1854-1930

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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

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American fiction writer. From the description of Papers of William Faulkner [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809728 From the description of Jacket, [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647811922 From the description of Uncorrected galley proof of The Faulkner reader [manuscript], 1954 April 1. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809700 From the description of Photograph, 1962 Mar. 2...

Loeb, Harold, 1891-

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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

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Author, newspaper editor. From the description of Letter to Maurice Hanline, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56349777 American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. From the guide to the Sherwood Anderson miscellany, 1981, undated, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Author. From the description of Death in the woods : annotated short story, circa 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Hemingway, Jack, 1923-2000

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Lederer, Herbert, 1921-

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Hemingway, Mary Welsh (1908- ).

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Mary Welsh Hemingway (1908-1986), journalist and author, was the wife of Ernest Hemingway. She grew up in and around Bemidji, Minnesota, where she attended public schools. Her fondest childhood memories were of canoe trips with her father in the lake country. "Up to the late teens of our century we lived in a world that was then remote and has now vanished at the insistence of lumbermen, plowmen, and road-builders," she wrote in her autobiography, How It Was (1976). Her father''s business declin...

Eastman, Max, 1883-1969

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Roving editor of Reader's Digest. From the description of Letters, 1945-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145430278 Eastman, the brother of Crystal Eastman, translated Russian writings into English. From the description of Letter, 1968. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007545 Author. From the description of Papers, 1892-1968. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 40833141 From the description of Letters, 1943-1960....

Young, Philip, 1918-1991

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Philip Young came to the Pennsylvania State University in 1959 as Professor of American Literature. He wrote several critically acclaimed books: Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration, The Private Melville, Revolutionary Ladies, Hawthorne's Secret: An Untold Tale, and the posthumously published collection of essays, American Fiction, American Myth. From the description of Philip Young papers, 1930-2000. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 53101441 ...

Cape, Johnathan

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Hemingway, Patrick.

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Hemingway, Gregory H. (Gregory Hancock), 1931-2001

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Shipman, Evan B. (Evan Biddle), ca. 1903-1957

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Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964

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Marion Lowndes, Palisades, New York, was a close friend of artist, Gerald Murphy. Murphy was a painter, born in Boston, Mass. and lived in Palisades, New York. He was active in Europe around 1921, and painted in an abstract style. From the description of Marion Lowndes letters from Gerald Murphy, 1948-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557109 Gerald Murphy (1888-1964), painter and businessman, and Sara Wiborg Murphy (1883-1975) were wealthy American expatriates in Paris...

Hemingway, Grace Hall

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