The Life of Ernest Hemingway

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Life issue of September 1, 1952, featuring The Old Man and the Sea

Print Resources
  • Most print resources on Ernest Hemingway will be located in 813.52 and Biography.
  • Print resources on specific topics may be found by searching the Online Catalog for books.
  • eBooks ~ eBooks on Literary Criticism from Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Databases: Scroll over an image for a complete description.

Search Biography Resource Center for brief and extensive biographies, articles, and web resources about people in American and world life, both past and present.~ Search Ernest Hemingway for biographies and magazine/journal articles.

Search for articles from the Daily Herald, Sun-Times, Tribune and Tribune RedEye.~ Click Advanced Search > Enter Ernest Hemingway in the search box > Change In All Text to In Index Terms or In Headline > Click Search or hit enter.

Chicago Tribune Historical Archive~ News stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Included: Chicago Tribune Morgue clippings file (nearly 3 million); major stories covering events and issues clipped and indexed by the Chicago Tribune staff at time of publication. Coverage is from the 1920's through 1984. Front pages (16,614 pages containing over 155,000 articles) - image of entire front page as it appeared when published from the early 1900 through 1984.

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Literature Resource Center holds literary criticism essays, articles, bibliographies, author biographies, and Internet resources on American, British, and world authors. ~ Search Ernest Hemingway in the Author Search or click Title Search and search Old Man and the Sea

Search LitFINDER for full-text short stories, poetry, plays, and speeches.  LitFINDER also holds literary criticism and biographies. ~Search Ernest Hemingway for some full-text short stories, a brief biography, and literary criticism.

Search Student Resource Center Gold for reference, periodical, and primary source articles as well as maps and images across all subject areas. ~ Search Ernest Hemingway for plot summaries, basic biographies, and literary criticism.

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Internet Resources

Hemingway Resources

Ernest Hemingway at 100 ~ Articles and images from the Kansas City Star.

Ernest Hemingway: a Storyteller's Legacy ~ by Megan Floyd Desnoyers. An article about Ernest Hemingway and the Hemingway collection held at the John F. Kennedy Library.  This article originally appeared in Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives, Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 1992.

Ernest Hemingway Collection ~ A description of the Hemingway collections available at Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. Some images and artifacts have been digitized.

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park ~ This site covers all aspects of Hemingway's life and work, including a chronology, writings, awards, quotes, photographs, and links to related sites. Home of the Hemingway Birthplace Home and Museum.

Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum ~ A primarily commercial site for tourists, but there are a few images of Hemingway's Key West home.

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Ernest Hemingway in His Time ~ An online exhibition from the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

The Hemingway Collection of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum ~ Most of the Hemingway archives have not been digitized; click on Online Resources on the left to find digitized papers, letters, and other documents.

Hemingway's LibraryPDF ~ A description and commentary of Hemingway's library--the books he personally owned. By James D. Brasch and Joseph Sigman. Electronic edition, 2000. (Originally published New York and London by Garland Pub., 1981.) 441 pp. DO NOT PRINT--Save the PDF to your "My Documents" folder.

Hemingway's Reading: 1910-1940 PDF ~ An inventory of books, periodicals, and newspapers that Hemingway owned or borrowed between 1910 and 1940. DO NOT PRINT--Save the PDF to your "My Documents" folder.

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A Hemingway Retrospective ~ Documents, articles, images, and more from a CNN In-Depth special.

The Hemingway Society ~ Website of The Hemingway Foundation, established by Hemingway's widow, Mary Hemingway, dedicated to "the promotion, assistance and coordination of scholarship and studies relating to the works and life of the late Ernest Hemingway."

The Journey to the John F. Kennedy Library ~ by Megan Floyd Desnoyers. An article describing how the Ernest Hemingway collection came to the John F. Kennedy Library.  This article originally appeared in Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives, Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 1992.

The Literary Traveler ~ "Dedicated to the exploration of the literary imagination," this website features "articles about writers, creative artists, and the places that they lived and traveled." Read about the homes and travels of Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Edgar Allan Poe, and many others. Browse articles by author or location.

Michael Paline's Hemingway Adventure ~ An interactive website from PBS documenting the adventure of Hemingway's life.

Picturing Hemingway: a Writer in His Time ~ An exhibition of photographs and text from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

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N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Maine South High School, Library Resource Center, Park Ridge, IL
Created: 10/17/06 Last update: 5/12/08 Contact: nmellendorf@maine207.org