The annual Ernest Hemingway Festival will take place from September 25-28, 2008 in Sun Valley, Idaho. The 2008 theme is "Hemingway in Cuba" and there will be a wide selection of events for Hemingway aficionados to enjoy.

The last living son of Ernest Hemingway celebrated his 80th birthday on June 28th, 2008. Scott Simon of NPR spoke to Patrick about growing older, being a Hemingway, and his role in preserving his father's legacy.

Timeless Hemingway is not just passionate about Ernest Hemingway. Timeless Hemingway is also passionate about designing web sites for those who help others and who are heroes in their communities.

Timeless Hemingway has entered the world of social networking. Now you can connect with Timeless Hemingway aficionados from around the world on Facebook.

With the economy likely in a recession, gas and food prices skyrocketing, and home values falling, consumers are curbing their spending at expensive restaurants especially abroad. In the midst of all of this financial despair, there is one very special restaurant in Italy that is making its meal ticket more affordable for Americans.

The Stratford-upon-Avon International Festival of Literature has two special events planned for the Hemingway fan this April.

Published in 1938, The Fifth Column is a three-act play set during the Spanish Civil War. It is the only play Ernest Hemingway ever wrote and now you have the opportunity to see it performed on stage for the very first time.

Ernest Hemingway was never terribly active politically nor was he an avid fan of politicians in general. There is one 2008 presidential candidate, however, who has revealed that he is a great admirer of a Hemingway protagonist, a protagonist he calls "My No. 1 hero of all time!"

The Hemingway Newsletter is produced by the Hemingway Society and is issued twice annually in the winter and summer. Once only available to members of the Hemingway Society, The Hemingway Newsletter is now online for your reading pleasure.

Norman Mailer, who died yesterday at the age of eighty-four, had long been considered the successor to Ernest Hemingway's literary throne. Mailer's first book, The Naked and the Dead, published in 1948, was a bestseller and prompted many people to label this twenty-five-year-old writer as the "new Hemingway." Did Mailer deserve this distinction? Who better to answer that question than Ernest Hemingway himself.

In the many biographies written about him, Ernest Hemingway has been portrayed as a distant son who harbored a great deal of hatred for his mother. He seems to have held her partly responsible for his father's 1928 suicide and he didn't attend her funeral when she died in June of 1951. However, a new collection of letters show a different side of Hemingway, that of a dutiful son.

An advance copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls signed by Ernest Hemingway and including his handwritten corrections will be auctioned off in November by Swann Galleries. Ernest Hemingway literary memorabilia has always fared well financially in the bidding marketplace and this proof is expected to continue in that tradition.

I recently paid a visit to YouTube, the web's premiere source for online video, and performed a search for "Ernest Hemingway." Numerous video listings were returned and I watched many of them. Now for your viewing pleasure, I present the three best Ernest Hemingway videos that I found on YouTube.

In September of last year, I wrote a blog entry about the USDA wanting the Hemingway cats of Key West to be licensed. They believed that the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum was "violating the Animal Welfare Act and subject to a daily fine of $200 per cat, or nearly $10,000 a day." Last week, the Key West City Commission disputed the claims of the USDA and ruled that Hemingway's famous felines can stay.

Ernest Hemingway's influence on our culture never ceases to amaze me. He has societies in Michigan, Oak Park, Illinois, and Japan dedicated to preserving his memory. A scholarly journal (The Hemingway Review) bears his name, as does a literary award (PEN/Hemingway Award), not to mention an entire marina in Havana, Cuba. And now you can even find Hemingway on stage portrayed by actor Jordan Rhodes.

For many years, I have been trying to confirm that Ernest Hemingway is not the author of the following quotation: "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games." In July 2006, the case appeared to be solved when I received a source for the quotation, a story titled "Blood Sport" by Ken Purdy. Recently, information was received that may prompt me to reopen the case.

On April 2, 2007, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, MA made available to scholars thirty letters written by Ernest Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich. The letters span the years 1949 to 1959 and show Hemingway's enormous affection for Dietrich. Some passages in the letters even have people wondering if Hemingway and Dietrich were lovers.

Martha Gellhorn always disliked being referred to as Ernest Hemingway's third wife. She once said: "Why should I be a footnote to someone else's life?" Outside of their brief marriage, there was a more tragic footnote that tied Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway together.

Though Ernest Hemingway had a rather pessimistic view of love in his literary works, he spoke very fondly of love in a lesser known piece of writing. To commemorate the Valentine's Day now passed, I thought it would be fitting to share a few of Hemingway's thoughts on love.

Ernest Hemingway makes great copy. So many articles simply must put in a Hemingway angle. Take this January 3, 2007 article from The Daily Telegraph, which begins: "A fast-growing chain of noodle restaurants that claims to serve only fish from healthy stocks has taken blue marlin off the menu after an investigation by The Daily Telegraph." If you were going to give this article the appropriate headline, what would it be?

The deteriorating condition of Hemingway's former home in Cuba has received a lot of press attention over the past few years. In 2005, the National Trust for Historic Preservation even went as far as to label the Finca Vigía one of the eleven most endangered historic places. While both Cuban and American preservation experts are working together to reverse the effects of time on the Finca Vigía, a significant political obstacle stands in their way.

November is the month for expressing our thankfulness. It's a time for reflecting on the things in our lives which make us truly grateful. In that spirit, I am devoting this blog entry to the top ten reasons why I am thankful for Ernest Hemingway.

Hemingway's former home in Ketchum, Idaho was recently opened as part of the second annual Ernest Hemingway Festival. The evening event did not offer the traditional "do not touch anything" tour. Instead, forty people had the rare opportunity to enjoy a catered dinner with proceeds going toward the upkeep of the home. While I can see the appeal of such an event for the true Hemingway aficionado, I do not think I could have mustered the "grace under pressure" required to pay the admission fee.

"USDA wants Hemingway cats licensed" was a headline making the rounds last month. According to the Agriculture Department, the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Florida is "violating the Animal Welfare Act and subject to a daily fine of $200 per cat, or nearly $10,000 a day." I find this story amusing not because I want to see the cats confined per order of the USDA, but because I question if these cats are truly of the Hemingway line.

Ernest Hemingway was a worldly traveler. Before the age of twenty-five, Hemingway had seen Italy, Paris, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Constantinople. In his adult years, he traveled to Africa, Cuba, Hong Kong, Hawaii, and London. You now have the unique opportunity to travel to these places and walk in Hemingway's footsteps.

I recently launched a new feature on Timeless Hemingway. It is called HemingWiki and it is the first wiki devoted entirely to Ernest Hemingway. From Hemingway's life to his works to his family to his travels, HemingWiki strives to cover it all. However, in order to be truly comprehensive, HemingWiki needs your help!

Something has always puzzled me about Ernest Hemingway's suicide. Why did Mary Hemingway not hide the keys to the basement storage room where Hemingway kept his gun collection? Was it simply because she believed that "no wife has the right to deprive her husband of his possessions." Or is there truth to the longstanding charge that Mary actually willed her husband's suicide?

During an interview with the London Literary Review, Sir V.S. Naipaul, the 2001 Nobel laureate for literature, described Ernest Hemingway as "so busy being an American" that he "didn't know how to compose a paragraph." Naipaul offered no further explanation of his remarks, but let's assume for the sake of argument, he was referring to the time Hemingway spent at war. Yes, Hemingway was very busy during this time. He was busy chronicling experiences, which would inspire some of the greatest literature ever written.

A few weeks ago, Simon & Schuster announced that they will be releasing a number of Hemingway titles in audio book form. Patrick Hemingway said of the audio book versions: "Reading Hemingway is to listen to him, to 'hear' the dialogue. The spoken word versions will certainly add another dimension to his writing and will entice new audiences to his work." I couldn't agree with him more.

The most popular feature of the Timeless Hemingway web site is the Hemingway Quote Finder. Since 1999, quote source requests have been sent in from people of all walks of life: professors, film production companies, government officials, and authors. However, many of the inquiries I receive do not originate with Hemingway. So here they are (drum roll please) — the top five misattributed Hemingway quotations.

A few weeks ago, I received a very intriguing question at the Timeless Hemingway web site. An individual had been given the unique opportunity of naming a road and he wanted to name it in honor of Ernest Hemingway. I was asked to offer any suggestions. Here is how I responded.

Ernest Hemingway has had one of the most active posthumous lives of any writer. He died in 1961 and since that time there have been five books published "by Ernest Hemingway." These books include A Moveable Feast (1964), Islands in the Stream (1970), The Dangerous Summer (1985), The Garden of Eden (1986), and True at First Light (1999). A sixth posthumous installment was published in September of 2005 and this may be the very last posthumous work we see from the great Hemingway.

Two months ago, I watched "Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea" on PBS. The program told the story of Hemingway mainly through Hemingway's own words. As the program progressed, I sat in disbelief listening to all the lengthy quotes from Hemingway's works. While I think this is an appropriate way to tell the story of a writer's life, I couldn't help wondering what type of arrangement the filmmaker (DeWitt Sage) made with the Hemingway estate to allow all of the excerpts to be used.

It has been four years since Gregory Hemingway, the third and youngest son of Ernest Hemingway, died. The strange circumstances surrounding his death while tragic were not entirely unexpected, for Gregory Hemingway was as tortured an individual as his father.

This has always been a difficult subject for me. I am torn between feeling guilt for having read someone's private letters (Hemingway stated in writing that he never wanted his letters published.) and feeling absolute elation that we, the reading public, have access to these important literary and historical documents.

I was a freshman in college when I first heard the closing line of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. A charismatic literature professor holding a diet coke in one hand and a piece of literary Americana in the other stood in front of a class of thirty some odd students and said, " 'Isn't it pretty to think so?' . . . perhaps the greatest closing line in all of literature." I remember being more taken by his seemingly sweeping statement than by the sentence itself. So taken, in fact, that I was compelled to discuss the issue further with him during his office hours.