Happy Birthday, Papa Hemingway
Nobel prize winning novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day, July 21st, 1899. Controversial, brilliant, and always quotable, his words on fiction and truth, taken from a 1954 letter to Bernard Berenson, beautifully captures the tenacity and passion of Hemingway as a writer. You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade … [Read more…]