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Hemingway

I've been on a Hemingway journey for several years, enjoying  The Paris Wife ,  A Moveable Feast ,  The Sun Also Rises ,  and Woody Allen's film  Midnight in Paris   while armed with my own memories of Paris. Today's review includes two recent reads about Ernest Hemingway and his world. At the Hemingways: A Family Portrait Originally published in 1962 after the suicide of her famous brother, Marcelline Hemingway Sanford shares stories of growing up with her brother and very family. With their primary residence in Oak Park, Illinois, and their summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, I found these local stories interesting just for their history. A newer edition was published in 1998 for the centennial of Hemingway's birth, and includes correspondence between Ernest and his sister Marcelline. Hemingway's experiences as a child and young man in Illinois and Michigan, as well as his time in Italy, Paris, and Spain are part of this treasure trove of Hemingwa...