But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.Įrnest started writing this book in Cuba in the autumn of 1957, worked on it in Ketchum, Idaho, in the winter of 1958-59, took it with him to Spain when we went there in April, 1959, and brought it back with him to Cuba and then to Ketchum late that fall.
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. It would be fine if all these were in this book but we will have to do without them for now. There is no mention of our voyages to the Black Forest or of our one-day explorations of the forests that we loved around Paris. Nor of such good friends as Charlie Sweeney, Bill Bird and Mike Strater, nor of André Masson and Miro. Nor of training with Larry Gains, nor the great twenty-round fights at the Cirque d’Hiver. There is no mention of the Stade Anastasie where the boxers served as waiters at the tables set out under the trees and the ring was in the garden. Some were secrets and some were known by everyone and everyone has written about them and will doubtless write more. Ernest Hemingway in the late 1920’s – Family Collection.įor reasons sufficient to the writer, many places, people, observations and impressions have been left out of this book.Zelda, Scott Fitzgerald and Scotty – Courtesy of Mrs.Ernest Hemingway and Bumby – Collection of Man Ray.In Ezra Pound’s studio: Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce standing, John Quinn – From the Sylvia Beach Collection, State University of New York at Buffalo.Interior of the bookshop showing James Joyce, with Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier – Photograph by Gisèle Freund, Paris.From the Collection of Sylvia Beach, Paris. Sylvia Beach and Ernest Hemingway in front of her bookshop, Shakespeare and Company – Copyright Estate of Sylvia Beach.Toklas and Gertrude Stein in Stein’s Paris apartment, 27 rue de Fleurus – Collection of Man Ray. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Elizabeth Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway in Chamby, Switzerland, 1922 – Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F.Ernest Hemingway as a young man – Family Collection.Go for the rest of your life, it stays with
In Paris as a young man, then wherever you
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