Hemingway in Key West
In the mid-19th century in Key West, the cigar industry transformed the island into the thirteenth largest port in the country. To get an education an…
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The Sun Also Sets: A Visit to Hemingway’s Grave and Memorial
It's quiet here at Hemingway's Grave. Sun Valley is filled with late afternoon light and there is a chill in the air. A new red truck drives into the …
The Story of Edith Piaf
Edith Piaf has always had a cult following. A voice like hers comes along perhaps once in a century. Her sad and valiant life story steals hearts.
Hemingway in Pamplona
I've fashioned a makeshift costume out of light khakis, a white t-shirt, and a wild west red bandanna. With me in the line at the bus station are youn…
Hemingway at Shakespeare & Company
For Ernest Hemingway, the walk from his Latin Quarter flat to Gertrude Stein’s pavillon at 27, rue des Fleurs, would have been a pleasant one:…
Carl Sandburg’s Connemara
Twenty-four miles south of Asheville in Flat Rock, NC, there once lived a Midwestern poet that wrote for the common man. His name was Carl Sandburg. H…
Remembering the Alcotts
By Linda McGovern The New England landscape and communities that Louisa May Alcott both cherished and used as inspiration for her writing have changed drastically…
Robert Frost in Vermont
Vermont is a splendid place in which to read. The state abounds with writers and bookstores. We are close to nature and the land; we…
Bertolt Brecht in LA
I would have never guessed fifteen years ago when I was introduced to his plays, that one day Bertolt Brecht and I would share the…
The Lessons of Youth: Ernest Hemingway as a Young Man
by Francis McGovern The year 1999 was the Centennial of the birth of Ernest Miller Hemingway, a writer who was a legend during his own…