Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Author Spotlight

Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)

Famous Works Include: The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952).

One of the most famous stories involving Hemingway is about a bet between him and his fellow authors. In the 1920s, Hemingway bet $10 that he could write a complete short story in just six words. His colleagues were forced to pay up. His story: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn."

Famous Quotes Include:

"Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't."


"I rewrote the ending to Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. [The problem was] getting the words right."


Hope you've enjoyed this blast from the past from a 2008 edition of the WCWC!



- Anna H.

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