Ernest Hemingway letters to Harvey Breit, 1950-1961.

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Ernest Hemingway letters to Harvey Breit, 1950-1961.

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Consists of 93 letters, 1950-1961, from Hemingway to Harvey Breit together with a copy of "Fragments from Ernst von Hemingstein's Journal," a telephone interview conducted by Breit in 1954, and two letters from Mary Hemingway. Hemingway's letters are full of discussions of writers and their books, baseball, and boxing.

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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...

Breit, Harvey.

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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...