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history,” said Peggy Fogelman, acting director of the Morgan. “His influence on writers is multigenerational, ongoing, and worldwide. His stories and novels form the very foundation of modern literature. His life, itself, from expatriate Paris in the 1920s to Key West and Cuba, is the stuff of legend. The Morgan is deeply
honored to partner with the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to present this landmark exhibition and offer an intimate view of one of the great icons of American literature,” said Fogelman, “We are thrilled to collaborate with the Morgan on this first-of-its-kind exhibition capturing Hemingway as he revolutionized the literary landscape. The Nobel-Prize laureate is often portrayed as a larger-than-life figure. The materials on display, most for the very first time, will serve to humanize the man and edify his creative talent, ”said Tom Putnam, Kennedy Library director. Exhibition Prelude “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places,” Ernest Hemingway
Here is Ernest Hemingway on crutches while recovering in Milan, Italy, September of 1918. Courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
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In the early 1920s Hemingway had recovered from his war wounds and was determined to make his living as a writer. He moved to Paris with his wife, Hadley, and became part of a group of artists who found in the “City of Light” a conducive environment for work. His constellation of friends and acquaintances would include
The exhibition presents a great range of items, from the author’s dog tags and official Certificate of Identity to original manuscript pages. Courtesy of the Morgan Library and Museum and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Photo by Graham S. Haber, 2015.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, and Joan Miró, among others. Sylvia Beach’s legendary bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, served as a gathering place. Looking back on those years, Hemingway would famously write, “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” With the city as his backdrop, Hemingway would
launch a career that in the next two decades saw the completion of five novels, two works of nonfiction, and five collections of short stories, most of which have taken their rightful place in the canon of 20th century American literature. The Exhibition Section 1 — The Class Prophet In his famous 1958 interview for “The Paris Review,” George Plimpton asked, “Can you recall an exact moment when you decided to become a writer?” Hemingway replied, “No, I always wanted to be a writer.” Hemingway began writing and publishing in his teens, his first fiction appearing in “Tabula,” his high school magazine. In 1917 he took a job as a cub reporter at “The Kansas City Star,” where he learned the essentials of good writing from the newspaper’s stylesheet. Rule number one was, “Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English.” Other rules included, “Avoid the use of adjectives,” and “eliminate every superfluous word.” Hemingway remained with the “Star” for a relatively short period, from October 1917 until he enlisted in April 1918, but the precepts he
learned there shaped his literary style and endured forever. Section 2 — World War I “The reason you are so sore, you missed the war,” Hemingway told F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, “because war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get.” Hemingway’s participation in World War I was brief, but its impact on his writing career was profound. In spring 1918 Hemingway enlisted in the American Red Cross and arrived in Italy on June 4. Little over a month later he was severely wounded. After a series of operations to remove 227 shrapnel fragments and bullets from his legs, he returned to the United States in January 1919. His experience as a war casualty, in combination with his deep study of the conflict, shaped numerous short stories as well as “The Sun Also Rises” and “A Farewell to Arms.” As biographer Michael Reynolds remarked, when Hemingway returned home, “he had experienced the quintessential modern experience, the violence of war. There would be no peace
A photograph of Hemingway at the Finca Vigia, posing in front of Waldo Pierce’s 1929 oil portrait “Kid Balzac,” which depicts Hemingway, 1952. Courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
in his time.” Section 3 — Paris “Paris was the place,” said Gertrude Stein, “that suited us who were to create the 20th century art and literature.” Hemingway took up residence in Paris in January 1922. Ostensibly there to write feature stories on European affairs for “The Toronto Star,” he arrived with letters of introduction to Stein, Ezra Pound, and Sylvia (Continued on page 26)
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