Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway was scheduled to read alone but was frightfully anxious, so he asked Stephen Spender , whom he had met in Spain, to come along and read too. Hemingway was still nervous on the...

On 26 August 1944, Hemingway came rolling down rue de l'Odéon with four BBC cars and liberated the rue de l'Odéon. SB writes that she heard four shots on the roofs and that was the...

The speech urged all Americans to use their democratic rights to bring down corrupt politicians, because the President eats dirt and excrement for the daily meals, likes it, and tries to force it on the...

By the 1920s the salon attracted an impressive array of prominent writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Paul Valéry , Colette , Jean Cocteau , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Rabindranath Tagore , Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott