Ernest Hemingway collection, 1920-1962.

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Ernest Hemingway collection, 1920-1962.

The Hemingway collection consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs and artwork related to Ernest Hemingway. There are original letters and copies of letters from Hemingway to Grace Quinlan Otis, Edward K. Thompson and others. Writings include a photocopy of a typescript draft of "A Moveable Feast," a typescript draft of "Today is Friday," a galley proof of "A Hemingway Reader," and galley proofs of manuscripts by Carlos Baker, Charles A. Fenton, Leicester Hemingway, Lillian Ross, Marcelline Hemingway Sanford and Philip Young. There are also photographs of Hemingway as a young man and representations of Hemingway in artwork by Arthur Hawkins and Justin Sturm.

5.96 linear ft. (6 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7777876

Yale University Library

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There are 13 Entities related to this resource.

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...

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...

Sturm, Justin.

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Hawkins, Arthur E., 1923-....

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Book designer and illustrator. From the description of Papers of Arthur Hawkins [manuscript], 1929-1970. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647821281 ...

Sanford, Marcelline Hemingway, 1898-1963

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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 ...

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. ...

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...

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...

Babb, James T. (James Tinkham), 1899-1968

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Thompson, Edward K., 1907-

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Otis, Grace Quinlan.

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Book-of-the-Month Club

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The Book-of-the-Month Club, founded in 1926, is a United States mail-order business, customers of which are offered a new book each month. From the description of Book-of-the-Month Club records, 1939-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131595 The Book-of-the-Month Club (BOMC) was founded in 1926 by Harry Scherman (1887-1969) in partnership with Maxwell Sackheim (1890-1982) and Robert K. Haas (1890-1964). Created to satisfy a perceived demand for quality literature that co...