{"title":"James Plath","description":"\u003cp\u003eJAMES PLATH is the R. Forrest Colwell Endowed Chair and Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he teaches American literature, journalism, film, and creative writing. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eHistoric Photos of Ernest Hemingway\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlath earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1988 and is a former Fulbright teaching scholar at the University of West Indies in Barbados. \u003cem\u003eHistoric Photos of Ernest Hemingway\u003c\/em\u003e won a USA Book News Best Books 2009 Award in the Biography\/Historical category. He published the arts journal \u003cem\u003eClockwatch Review\u003c\/em\u003e for 16 years and directed the Hemingway Days Writers' Workshop \u0026amp; Conference in Key West for ten years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he’s not writing, Plath serves as president of The John Updike Society and publishes poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, and literary criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Plath’s books are published by Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"historic-photos-of-ernest-hemingway","title":"Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Ernest Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, presenters called him \"one of this epoch’s great molders of style,” praising his vivid dialogue and journalistic eye for \"robust details to accumulate and take on momentous significance.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut even the Swedish Academy could not separate Hemingway the writer from Hemingway the adventurer. They also cited his \"manly love of danger and adventure, with a natural admiration for every individual who fights the good fight in a world of reality overshadowed by violence and death.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1920s until his death in 1961, \"Papa” Hemingway was a larger-than-life literary figure whose everyday exploits became legendary. He was a friend of celebrities, a war correspondent, journalist, renowned big-game hunter, record-setting saltwater angler, and hard-drinking brawler whose reputation preceded him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough Hemingway was and remains an American icon, he was also first and foremost a human being, as these striking black-and-white photos remind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1684420415\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781684420414\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"James Plath","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43297518944472,"sku":"9781684420414","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9781684420414_FC_mockup_v2_1663348701_099eb24e-5282-4da6-ab73-84b8cc15c752.jpg?v=1791050088"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-james-plath.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}