Back in my graduate school days, I ran across a copy of the rough draft of Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway wrote his initial drafts in longhand with a pencil. It was fascinating ...

Ernest Hemingway was the master of the simple, declarative sentence during his time. By contrast, when Saul Bellow came along, he wrote descriptive sentences full of verbal energy. “This was a great ...

...Hemingway wrote that the world “breaks everyone,” and those “it does not break it kills.” “It kills the very good and very gentle and the very brave impartially,” he wrote. “If you are none of ...

ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES (308 pp.)—Ernest Hemingway—Scribner ($3). Hemingway was the champ all right. He was past 50, but still the champ, and he was ready to take on all comers. He had ...

I’ve had this itch ever since I walked the streets of Havana in 1999 and a group of Cuban children surrounded me and chanted, “Hemingway, Hemingway.” That became my nickname among the writers ...

From the archives: A story originally published June 27, 1999, from Steve Paul, now editorial page editor. “Kansas City was a strange and wonderful place,” Ernest Hemingway once wrote but never ...