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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. - Ernest Hemingway Attribution: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), U.S. author. Letter, July 1, 1925, to F. Scott Fitzgerald, describing Fitzgerald’s version of heaven. Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters (1981). Hemingway depicts Fitzgerald’s hell as “an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.” For Hemingway’s own idea of paradise, see his comment under “heaven.”

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Ernest Hemingway

Titles by Ernest Hemingway:

• A Canary for One
• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
• A Farewell to Arms
• After the Storm
• An Alpine Idyll
• Big Two-Hearted River
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Hills Like White Elephants
• In Another Country
• In Our Time
• Indian Camp
• The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
• The Garden of Eden
• The Killers
• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• The Soldier's Home
• The Sun Also Rises
• To Have and Have Not
• True at First Light

eNotes:

• Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms (A Farewell to Arms)
• Ernest Hemingway (The Killers)
• The Hit in Summit: Ernest Hemingway’s “The Killers” (The Killers)
• Ernest Hemingway (The Snows of Kilimanjaro)
• Ernest Hemingway (A Clean, Well-Lighted Place)
• Ernest Hemingway (In Another Country)
• Ernest Hemingway (Hills Like White Elephants)
• Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
• Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
• Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
• Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

Salem on History:

• Ernest Hemingway

American Decades:

• Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961 (1950's The Arts)
• Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961 (1920's The Arts)

Videohound Movie Retriever:

• Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

Encyclopedia:

• Hemingway, Ernest Miller (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Hemingway, Ernest [Miller] (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Ernest Hemingway (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
• Ernest Hemingway (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Magill Book Reviews)
• Ernest Hemingway (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
• Ernest Hemingway (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
• Ernest Hemingway (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
• Ernest Hemingway (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Ernest Hemingway (Identities and Issues in Literature)

Primary Sources:

• Hemingway, Ernest (Roaring Twenties)

Literary Criticism:

• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 8) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Miller) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• The Influence of Ernest Hemingway (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
• A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
• The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway (Short Story Criticism)
• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Ernest Hemingway (Short Story Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Short Story Criticism)
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway (Short Story Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 10) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 19) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 3) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 13) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises
• Ernest Hemingway publishes the story collection in our time
• Ernest Hemingway publishes his first work between hard covers, Three Stories and Ten Poems
• Ernest Hemingway is seriously wounded during an Austrian assault on the Italian Front, in World War I
• Ernest Hemingway is born
• Renata Adler receives the Ernest Hemingway Prize for best first novel for Speedboat
• Ernest Hemingway dies
• Ernest Hemingway receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Ernest Hemingway receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Old Man and the Sea
• Ernest Hemingway publishes The Old Man and the Sea
• Ernest Hemingway publishes For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Max Eastman publishes “Bull in the Afternoon,” a retrospective article attacking Ernest Hemingway's craft which enraged Hemingway and eventually led to a scuffle between critic and author
• Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms