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THBLot of (2) Books and (2) Framed Photograph Sets of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
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Lot of (2) Books and (2) Framed Photograph Sets of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). The single framed photo is from the archives of Miguel Martin and shows Hemingway along with matador Antonio Ordonez Aruajo along with an entourage and police escort in 1959 in the tasting room of Molino El Vinculo in Spain. The framed collection of photos are remarkably rare stills from the iconic 1953 shoot by Inge Feltrinelli that include herself, Hemingway, Gregorio Fuentes (the first mate of Hemingway's boat The Pilar and the inspiration for the titular character of The Old Man and the Sea), and a massive marlin. The larger book is "Hemingway in Cuba," a thoroughly illustrated tome compiled by his niece Hilary about the author's life in the Caribbean. The smaller book is "Strange Tribe" by his grandson John, an extensive examination of the family history, signed and addressed "to Janet" on the title page by the author. Both books hardcover with dustjackets.
Size (Largest): 14 x 12 in.
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21st, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, an affluent suburb just west of Chicago. He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School in 1913, where he competed in several sports, performed in the school orchestra on cello for two years, and edited the school’s newspaper and yearbook. When he graduated he went to work for The Kansas City Star as a cub reporter, and although he stayed there only for six months the Star’s style guide, which stated “Use short sentences,” became the foundation for his prose style. When World War I broke out Hemingway tried to enlist but was not accepted because of poor eyesight. He volunteered instead for the Red Cross and became an ambulance driver in Italy in 1918. He came under mortar fire and was seriously wounded, but assisted Italian soldiers to safety, for which he was decorated with the Italian War Merit Cross. In 1920 he became a staff writer for the Toronto Star Weekly, dividing his time between Canada and Chicago, where he also worked as an associate editor of the monthly journal Cooperative Commonwealth. He met Hadley Richardson, eight years older than him, and took her to Europe to travel. They married in Paris in 1921, and Hemingway settled into a life among Parisian literati including Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound, all expatriates like himself. He became a definitive voice for “The Lost Generation,” a term coined by Stein which he popularized with the publication of his first major work in 1926, “The Sun Also Rises.” Sadly, almost all his early fiction and short stories were lost in 1922 when Hadley misplaced his suitcase while they were traveling. He continued working as a journalist and had a son with Hadley, but the relationship and his writing deteriorated, leading to him having an affair with Pauline Pfeiffer, a wealthy writer for Vogue Magazine. He divorced Hadley and married Pauline, both in 1927. They moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1928, where Pauline gave birth to two children and Hemingway worked on “A Farewell to Arms.” The family settled in Key West, Florida in 1931, and in 1934 he purchased a boat and named it Pilar, sailing about the Caribbean, seeking inspiration. He became a writer for the North American Newspaper Alliance to cover the Spanish Civil War in 1937, and during his time in Madrid wrote his only play, “The Fifth Column.” In early 1939 Hemingway crossed to Cuba in Pilar to live in the Hotel Ambos Mundos in Havana. He separated from Pauline and married Martha Gellhorn in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1940, finishing “For Whom the Bell Tolls” that same year. In 1941 it was unanimously selected to win the Pulitzer Prize, but the head of the board refused to give the award that year. When the United States entered World War II, Hemingway returned to Cuba, using Pilar to hunt for German U-boats and spying on Nazi sympathizers. The FBI began to keep track of him, compiling an enormous file, and Martha convinced him to go to Europe on behalf of Colliers as a front-line correspondent in 1944. In March of 1945 their divorce was finalized, and he married a Time magazine correspondent named Mary Welsh the following year. He was present at the Liberation of Paris and The Battle of the Bulge, and was awarded a Bronze Star for bravery in 1947. In 1948 Hemingway and Mary traveled to Europe, staying in Venice for several months, where he fell in love with 19-year-old Adriana Ivancich. The affair was platonic, and led to a new novel, “Across the River and into the Trees,” which garnered universally negative reviews. Furious at the reception, Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea,” which became a book-of-the-month selection, made Hemingway an international celebrity, and won the Pulitzer Prize in May of that year. After two near-fatal plane crashes in 1954 while in Africa, both he and Mary retired from public life, particularly after Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature that same year. He started a memoir, but felt crowded by tourists flocking to see him wherever he traveled, and moved to Ketchum, Idaho. Growing paranoia and misery at being unable to return to Cuba after Fidel Castro came to power made him a recluse, and he underwent electroconvulsive therapy at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota in 1960. On July 2nd, 1961, Hemingway shot himself in the head with a shotgun. His father, sister, and brother had all killed themselves as well, along with several of his descendants, and the highly public nature of his life and death led to reduced stigma in talking about mental illness, suicidal ideation, and alcoholism, particularly for men. His work today is considered almost a personification of America itself, and writers that came after either emulated or shunned his style, inspired or repulsed by his larger-than-life behavior and tragic downward spiral.
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(largest) 14 x 12 in.
