Kansas City Star: Ernest Hemingway

When Hemingway met Salinger

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:04 CST

Editor's note: This story was originally published July 18, 2010

Big Read a big deal for KC

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:23 CDT

Kansas City will join more than 100 cities this fall in the Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts that encourages Americans to read and discuss a single book within their communities.

Star style and rules for writing

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:14 CDT

Below are excerpts from The Kansas City Star stylebook that Ernest Hemingway once credited with containing "the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing."

Events celebrate Hemingway

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:24 CDT

The Kansas City Star
Date: 06/26/99 22:15

In year of centennial, many coming to grips with formidable literary force

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:12 CDT
He was born on July 21, 1899, and died by his own hand on another July day 62 years later. In the intervening years, his life not only paralleled the rise of the "American century," he helped define it.

Hemingway on film

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:56 CDT
All but two of Hemingway's novels have been made into movies since the 1930s, some of them more than once.

Hemingway's Key West has, and has not, changed

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:22 CDT
Harry Morgan, the angry boat captain at the center of Ernest Hemingway's 1930s novel To Have and Have Not, struggled against the forces of economic change.

From his time to ours, Hemingway still speaks

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:29 CDT
You'd think that a book called In Our Time and written some 80 years ago might have scant interest for readers in our time. Today, that is.

The lure of Hemingway's Cuba

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:44 CDT
Sportswriter Wright Thompson and photographer John Sleezer traveled to Cuba earlier this year for The Star's special baseball sections. While there - and this was before political tensions re-emerged between Cuba and the United States - they tracked the legacy of Ernest Hemingway for Star Magazine.

Ernest Hemingway: A selected bibliography

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:09 CDT

Date: 06/27/99 00:01

Some Hemingway resources

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:00 CDT
In addition to True at First Light and Michael Reynolds' biography, Ernest Hemingway: The Final Years, these new, reissued and forthcoming books will be of interest to Hemingway aficionados this year.

Contemporary writers on Hemingway

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:34 CDT

Date: 06/27/99 00:01

Susan Whitmore: My problem with Hemingway

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:30 CDT
It was a propitious moment. I was in graduate school, living in the Netherlands, and tasked with reading Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms for a course in American literature.

Susan Beegel: What I like about Hemingway

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:19 CDT
What I like best about Hemingway is his devotion to that credo. Throughout his remarkable body of fiction, he tells the truth about human fear, guilt, betrayal, violence, cruelty, drunkenness, hunger, greed, apathy, ecstasy, tenderness, love and lust.

Biographer to speak in Kansas City

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:43 CDT
Michael Reynolds, a biographer who has been writing about Ernest Hemingway for more than 25 years, will speak July 8 at Unity Temple on the Plaza.

Preparing for War and Writing

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:49 CDT
On a fast track to manhood and making his way in the world, Ernest Hemingway began working at The Kansas City Star in the middle of October 1917. The United States had begun training troops for the brutal war under way in Europe.

Of `Star Style' and a reporter named Hemingway

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:33 CDT
In 1915, the sinking of the Lusitania received exceptional play in The Star. A two-column headline announced the tragedy, the first of many in the next few years. The European powers plunged deeper into war, drawing the United States inexorably toward the trenches, which already snaked across the fields of eastern France.

The Hemingway barbecue connection

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:53 CDT
We love our icons, and we love our barbecue, and it's fabulously synergistic when our icons and our barbecue intersect. Ernest Hemingway never wrote about Kansas City barbecue.

Annotation added to Hemingway history

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:56 CDT
Ernest Hemingway's Kansas City experience was highlighted in the newspaper last week, and there is a footnote that must be addressed because it involves a correction.

A Writer's Haunts: Where He Worked and Where He Lived

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:48 CDT
Ernest Hemingway lived and worked in Kansas City for more than a year, if all his trips here are added together.