Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway
When 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.”
But 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.”
From 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.
Though Hemingway was and remains an American icon, he was also first and foremost a human being, as these striking black-and-white photos remind.
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Book details
- Text by
- James Plath
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 202
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Series
- Historic Photos
- Subjects
- Photography › Photoessays & Documentaries
Biography & Autobiography › Literary Figures - Topics
- literary figures · black-and-white photography · photo biography · 20th century authors · American literature · pictorial history
- ISBN-13
- 9781684420414
About the author
JAMES 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 Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway.
Plath 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. Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway won a USA Book News Best Books 2009 Award in the Biography/Historical category. He published the arts journal Clockwatch Review for 16 years and directed the Hemingway Days Writers' Workshop & Conference in Key West for ten years.
When he’s not writing, Plath serves as president of The John Updike Society and publishes poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, and literary criticism.