Carlos Baker letters to John C. Buck, 1953-1961.

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Carlos Baker letters to John C. Buck, 1953-1961.

The collection contains thirteen letters and one postal card to John C. "Jack" Buck, New Orleans, La., about Ernest Hemingway. The letters mention Buck's detective work on the life of World War I nurse Agnes Von Kurowsky who appears as a character in Hemingway's A farewell to arms; and news about Hemingway's son Jack.

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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...

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, Jack, 1923-2000

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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 ...

Buck, John C.,

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