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Watercolors, oil paintings, etchings by John Marin
Les prix Nobel en 1958 by Stockholm Nobelstiftelsen
Pearl Harbour by Charles Sweeny
Cuban counterpoint: tobacco and sugar by Fernándo Ortiz Fernández
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About meI won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for my novel The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year.
"I'm always reading books--as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply." - from an interview with George Plimpton in The Paris Review, Spring 1958.
"He read everything.... he would have a whole group of books going at one time, eight or ten.... he would put one down and pick up another." - Tillie Arnold, family friend and author of The Idaho Hemingway.
About my libraryBy the time of my death in 1961 I had amassed over 7400 books in my various homes. The long, long list has been input by my fans on LT, working from Hemingway's Library, the comprehensive list compiled by Dr. James D. Brasch and Dr. Joseph Sigman of McMaster University, and provided online through Boston’s John F. Kennedy Library, here. Also included in my library: the first editions of the books I authored (Drs. Brasch and Sigman note over 200 copies of my own books in my collection, but give no details).
Part of my library at Finca Vigía.
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and a close-up, courtesy Judith Sweet (also an LT member)
For in-depth details on my libraries in Key West and Cuba - and my book obsession - see the introduction to Hemingway's Library; for a more recent report on the current state of my Cuban library, see Adrian McKinty's article in the London Times, "Any Book in Hemingway's Library, $200".
My reviews of books and writers can be found in Ernest Hemingway On Writing, edited by Larry W. Phillips. Works and page numbers cited with quotes are from the Scribner paperback editions of my works.
A note on my favorite authors: they were added based on the information in Brasch & Sigman's introduction.
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posted by rocketjk at 9:23 pm (EST) on May 13, 2009
LC Control No.: 57014150
LCCN Permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/57014150
Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal Name: Bell, Ed, 1910-1956. [from old catalog]
Main Title: The lonely people and their strange ways. Selections compiled and edited by Robert Lasseter.
Published/Created: [Murfreesboro? Tenn.] 1957.
Description: 166 p. 21 cm.
Subjects: Murfreesboro, Tenn. --Social life and customs. [from old catalog]
LC Classification: PS3503.E4314 L6
Geographic Area Code: n-us-tn
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CALL NUMBER: PS3503.E4314 L6
Copy 1
posted by mrkurtz at 6:06 pm (EST) on May 13, 2009
By the way: How did you come back from the dead and enter ISLANDS IN THE STREAM into your library. It was published posthumously.
posted by andyray at 2:00 pm (EST) on May 1, 2009
posted by rocketjk at 5:18 pm (EST) on Apr 5, 2009
posted by stypulkoski at 3:28 am (EST) on Nov 10, 2008
posted by benjclark at 10:42 am (EST) on Oct 2, 2008
posted by redhotchili at 10:29 pm (EST) on Sep 21, 2008
Mabuhay! [Long live :D]
posted by redhotchili at 10:26 pm (EST) on Sep 21, 2008
posted by Esta1923 at 1:02 am (EST) on Jul 20, 2008
posted by mary.haycock at 5:23 pm (EST) on May 29, 2008
posted by Esta1923 at 1:18 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2008
I'm happy that you owned a copy of Dazai Osamu's "Shayo" (The setting Sun). :)
posted by handyfemme at 10:52 pm (EST) on Apr 5, 2008
Today I discovered you have more books in common with me than any other Dead Person up to now(73) and this number will certainly have grown considerably once my own library will be fully catalogued.
Apparently we share some interests. And I think you are one of the really great authors of the 20th century. That's why I would be very honoured if you would accept to become my friend.
Would you please be so kind as to transmit my thanks to the people who put your considerable library on LT?
posted by JanWillemNoldus at 8:20 pm (EST) on Apr 4, 2008
posted by rocketjk at 4:42 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008
posted by rocketjk at 12:27 am (EST) on Mar 22, 2008
posted by rocketjk at 3:44 pm (EST) on Mar 19, 2008
posted by rocketjk at 1:26 pm (EST) on Mar 17, 2008
Cast Down the Laurel by Arnold Gingrich and
Congo Song by Stuart Cloete. The Congo Song cover is particularly amazing, as it includes the copy, "Alone in a society of men on the equater, Olga Le Blanc is occupoied by here lovers, her tame gorilla and her own good looks."
I kid you not. I couldn't make that up. Believe it or not, Congo Song is not a farce or parody. I tried reading it once and had to stop after about 100 pages because it was intensely boring. Hard to believe with a title and cover like that, but there you have it. Someday I'll give it another try, just to say I did!
posted by rocketjk at 5:10 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2008
posted by rocketjk at 5:18 pm (EST) on Mar 6, 2008
posted by rocketjk at 4:20 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2008
posted by rocketjk at 7:29 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008
e le tenerezze di Zanzibar
c'era questa strada...
Oltre le illusioni di Timbuctù
e le gambe lunghe di Babalù
c'era questa strada...
Questa strada zitta che vola via
come una farfalla, una nostalgia,
nostalgia al gusto di curaçao...
...Forse un giorno meglio mi spieghero...
...Et alors, MONSIEUR HEMINGWAY,
ça va?
http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/Pa...
Sorry, couldn't find the Hemingway-track....
posted by zerkalo at 7:20 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2008
posted by crnfva at 12:31 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2008
posted by rocketjk at 3:26 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2008
I think the version posted here of a book called Our Fair City (http://www.librarything.com/work/4655060) is the same book that I posted today (http://www.librarything.com/work/4825145...), the difference being that your citation has no author listed. The Touchstone leads to your citation, which is essentially blank. Any chance you'd be willing to take a second to add the author, Robert S. Allen, so that these two would be combined?
Thanks!
Jerry
posted by rocketjk at 4:52 pm (EST) on Jan 31, 2008
How's that after-life going for you so far? ;o)
posted by clamairy at 9:50 am (EST) on Jan 17, 2008