Friday, July 25, 2014

Hemingway & Gellhorn

In honor of Ernest Hemingway's 115th birthday (July 21st), the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (July 17, 1936 - Hemingway and his third wife, Martha Gellhorn, were both journalists in Spain during the war) and the 2012 movie Hemingway & Gellhorn (now available in the library catalog), we offer you this list of titles that we hope will pique your interest.

Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill

The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of José Robles by Stephen Koch

Hemingway: The 1930s by Michael Reynolds

The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn edited by Caroline Moorehead

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