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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.”
Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899-July 2, 1961)
Ernest Hemingway wrote books that make you feel like that. July is Hemingway’s birth month (and death month), a good time to think about reading or rereading one or more of his books. Many of you probably remember reading Hemingway for the first time: The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea. Known for his distinctive writing style, superb dialog and understated prose, Hemingway had a significant influence on 20th century fiction writing. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. A literary giant, but also a reckless adventurer, Hemingway was known for his turbulent life. He was an ambulance driver, seriously wounded, during World War I, shot big game in Africa, ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and married four times before he ended his life in Ketchum, Idaho.
The library has Hemingway’s major works of fiction and nonfiction, collections of his short stories and also many books about this intriguing man. Read Papa Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner, the definitive biography, Michael Palin’s Hemingway Adventure, a book that retraces Hemingway’s footsteps around the world, or the Crook Factory by Dan Simmons, an entertaining fictionalized portrait of Hemingway as a 1930s spy. Rediscover Hemingway the writer and the man.
