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 Where can I find information
about Hemingway's cats?
 The following link will provide you with information on Hemingway's cats:
Hemingway Home Cats.
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Where can I purchase Hemingway
photos?
eBay
is a great place to pick up rare Hemingway items including photos. You should check in regularly to eBay because new Hemingway merchandise is being added daily. Purchasing products at eBay
requires a FREE registration.
You can also find Hemingway photos for purchase at barewalls.com.
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How accident prone was Hemingway?
Hemingway suffered through an enormous amount of accidents and ailments in his lifetime.
In his book, Hemingway , Kenneth Lynn gives an inventory list of health problems that consumed Hemingway in his later years. These included: concussion of the brain, ruptured liver, crushed
vertebra, temporary hearing and vision loss, and first-degree burns from two planes crashes in 1954. The entire list of health problems can be found on 529 of Lynn's book.
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Did Hemingway suffer from depression?
Ernest Hemingway did suffer from depression, particularly in the last years of his
life. His depression was so severe, in fact, that he was admitted to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in December of 1960. There he received a
series of electroshock treatments, which some felt did more harm than good.
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What were Hemingway's political views?
Hemingway was never terribly "active" politically, but he did voice his opinion
on things of a political nature (mostly the things he found objectionable). Try to get you hands on any of the following:
Ernest Hemingway on Writing edited by Larry W. Phillips.
There is a short chapter here titled "Politics," which contains Hemingway's interesting reflections on the political life.
Hemingway's 1937 speech to the American Writers' Congress demonstrates his willingness to speak up against oppressive systems of government.
The speech is titled "Fascism is a Lie" and is reprinted in Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, pages 193-195.
Hemingway's 1940 novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls shows his
concern with the Spanish Civil War and political overtones are present throughout the narrative and dialogue.
Keneth Kinnamon's essay, "Hemingway and Politics" in The Cambridge Companion to Ernest Hemingway
edited by Scott Donaldson may also be of interest.
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What was the name of Hemingway's
fishing boat?
The Pilar is the name of Hemingway's fishing
boat. In 1926, Hemingway had gone to the bullfights in Zaragoza, Spain. It was there that he witnessed the Pilar shrine (in honor of the
patron saint of Zaragoza). This was partly his inspiration for naming the boat. His other inspiration might have come from second wife Pauline,
who had given herself the nickname, "Pilar" when first courting Ernest. Hemingway purchased his beloved boat in 1934 for $7500.
Hemingway had specified that the boat be left to his long time fishing companion/mentor (and first mate of the Pilar),
Gregorio Fuentes. Fuentes felt that the best place for the boat would be at Hemingway's Finca Vigía property in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba.
The Pilar now resides there, a popular attraction for travelling EH aficionados. View a photo of Hemingway's Pilar.
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Where can I view a copy of
Hemingway's last will and testament?
Ernest Hemingway wrote his will in his own hand on September 17, 1955. He
wrote it in blue ink on a single piece of his Finca Vigía, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba stationery. He used both sides of the stationery. The will was
witnessed by George Brown, Rene Villareal and Lola Richards. George Brown was Hemingway's close friend and boxing coach. Rene Villareal and Lola Richards
worked as servants for Hemingway in his Cuban home.
Since wills are public domain documents, Timeless Hemingway is presenting Hemingway's Last Will and Testament below in text format. You may also view a scan
of Hemingway's will. The scan details only the front side of the will. The back side of the will, which contains the names of Hemingway's witnesses would
be illegible if scanned. I wish to thank Arlene Harris of the firm, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP for helping me to obtain the necessary photocopies.
Please note: even with excessive computer magnification, it was extremely difficult to transcribe Hemingway's will. Anyone knowing of errors in the text
provided below is urged to contact Timeless Hemingway with the necessary corrections.
[Front Side]
FINCA VIGIA, SAN FRANCISCO DE PAULA, CUBA
Last Will and Testament
I, Ernest Miller Hemingway a resident of Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula, Cuba do hereby make, publish and declare this
instrument as my last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say:
1. I hereby cancel, annul, and revoke all wills and codicils by me at any time heretofore made;
2. I hereby give, devise and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary now residing in Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba all my
estate and all of the property of which I may die siezed and possessed and to which I may be entitled at the time of my decease,
of whatever kind and nature, and wheresoever I may be situated; be it real, personal, literary or mixed, absolutely;
3. I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my beloved wife executrix and request that she be permitted to serve without bonds
or security thereon.
4. I have intentionally omitted to provide for my children now living or for any that may be born after this will has been executed
as I repose complete confidence in my beloved wife Mary to provide for them according to written instructions I have given her.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal to this my last Will and Testament at Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula --
Cuba this seventeenth day of September 1955.
Ernest Miller Hemingway
[Back Side]
Signed, sealed, published and declared to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of all of us at one time, and the same time
we, at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses, and do
attest to the sound and dispensing mind of said Testator and to the performance of the aforesaid acto of execution at Finca Vigia
San Francisco de Paula this seventeenth of September 1955.
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Witnesses
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Permanent Address
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George W. Brown
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68 West Street
New York City
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Rene Villareal
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Finca Vigia San Francisco
de Paula Cuba
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Lola Richards
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Finca Vigia San Francisco
de Paula Cuba
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Did Hemingway write the shortest short story?
As legend has it, Ernest Hemingway was asked if he knew the shortest story in the
English language. He is said to have answered: "For sale: Baby clothes, never used."
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What was the relationship like between
Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner?
Though the two writers never met, they corresponded through letters
and were always conscious of the other's reputation. Hemingway was a fiercely competitive writer. He used to compare his reign in writing to
the reign of a heavyweight boxing champion. In Faulkner, Hemingway found a serious opponent, one who could very well threaten his self-proclaimed
title of "The Champ." Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 (though was awarded it formally in 1950), and two Pulitzer Prizes, one in
1955 for his novel, A Fable and one awarded posthumously for
The Reivers (1962). Faulkner also holds
the distinction of co-writing one of the best screenplays for Hemingway's novels. In the 1944 film, To Have and Have Not ,
Lauren Bacall says to Humphrey Bogart: "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." We have Faulkner to thank, in part, for that memorable line.
As with many of his writing contemporaries, Hemingway both praised and criticized Faulkner. At times, he called him "the best of us all"
and wished he had his talent. At other times, he said that one could not reread Faulkner and had to "wade through a lot of crap to get
to his gold." Tension between the two mounted in 1947 when Faulkner made a seemingly innocent remark about Hemingway's courage (from a
literary perspective), stating that the author has "never climbed out on a limb" and "never used a word where the reader might check his usage by
a dictionary." True to form, Hemingway took this as an attack on his manhood and went as far as to have one of his distinguished military friends,
Colonel Charles T. (Buck) Lanham send Faulkner his own eyewitness accounts of Hemingway's "grace under pressure." Faulkner later apologized.
The relationship between Hemingway and Faulkner is an interesting one. For more information, see Linda Wagner-Martin's 1975 book,
Hemingway and Faulkner .
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On what magazine covers has Hemingway appeared?
Quite a few. Note that some of these covers are
merely artist renditions of Hemingway.
Time Magazine (Oct. 18, 1937)
The American Mercury (Nov. 1950)
Flash Magazine -- back cover (Dec. 1950)
Life Magazine (Sept. 1, 1952)
The Saturday Review (Sept. 6, 1952)
Look Magazine (Jan. 26, 1954)
The Atlantic (March 1954)
Look Magazine (April 20, 1954)
Time Magazine (Dec. 1954)
True Magazine (Feb. 1956)
Parade Magazine (July 28, 1957)
The Fisherman Magazine (Jan. 1958)
Wisdom Magazine (June 1958)
This Week Magazine (Oct. 18, 1959)
Life Magazine (Sept. 5, 1960)
Life Magazine (July 14, 1961)
The Humanist (Sept. 1961)
The Atlantic Monthly (Jan. 1969)
Esquire (Oct. 1970)
New York Times Magazine (Aug. 18, 1985)
Sports Illustrated (May 5, 1986)
Prologue (Winter 1992)
Cigar Aficionado (August 1999)
If you know of any covers that have been overlooked, please contact Timeless Hemingway.
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