Ernest Hemingway - The Early Years | Biographical Documentary

[@perarduaadastra873]

Narrator has a fabulous voice, so easy to listen and absorb, a rare tone.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you.

[@gwae48]

GREAT VOICE !!!! So many videos ruined by terrible voices doing the reading !!!! 😫😖😖

[@ekaterinabankevitch8513]

I agree, what a pleasure for the ears. Great material, presentation style and visuals. Thank you!

[@user-jv9qz2bu1r]

@@professorgraemeyorston I like the pacing - just right, not too fast. The narratives are well-focused/constructed with care.

[@vicvega3614]

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[@marquiesriley6479]

The story of hemmingway is so steeped in intrigue and mystery…..like u said at the end, his life’s story is almost to extraordinary to be believed…cant wait to see part two….

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thanks, should be out next Friday!

[@janegardener1662]

Your lectures are always a pleasure to listen to! Thanks for all your hard work putting these together, it is much appreciated.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

You're very welcome!

[@jubalcalif9100]

My sentiments exactly. This series of videos are incredibly awesome & amazing. I'm learning SO much!

[@DezleySD7]

Isn’t it wonderful to have a human narrator not a bloody AI robot !!!’

[@professorgraemeyorston]

I agree!

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indubitably! I am beginning to really hate those AI narrators!

[@grantlawrence611]

Those AI narrations often mispronounce words. Very annoying

[@57113]

Bloody right mate 👏 0:41

[@დავითჯოჯიშვილი]

imagine hating on inevitable

[@TuckerSP2011]

Fascinating biography of Hemingway! Looking forward to Part 2.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Coming soon!

[@GregHaibon-h3t]

This guy is a top notch narrator.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you.

[@lorendebond6321]

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[@jubalcalif9100]

I could not agree more. A magnificent voice.

[@triciashoemaker9047]

Absolutely.

[@dianajane6185]

Professor Yorston, you have a beautiful way of illuminating complicated topics. When I was young, I was so appalled by Hemingway‘s crimes against large animals, I never even looked at his work, let alone his life. Except I came to admire his bequest to his cats. And, now that, over time, I have grown somewhat more capable of objectivity, I deeply appreciate having your guided introduction to Ernest Hemingway, the person. Thank you. Now to Part 2!

[@professorgraemeyorston]

I felt the same way and didn't read many of Hemingway's works when I was younger.

[@TTFN55]

Also, the hunters pay for the animal preserves.

[@aurelia5614]

@@TTFN55 But if the killing is only for sport and an outmoded version of masculinity to uphold, paying upfront for the pleasure of killing an innocent creature does not wash and is immoral and sickening.

[@TTFN55]

@@aurelia5614 - Life isn't a Disney movie. None of your assumptions are correct.

[@aurelia5614]

@@TTFN55 Which 'assumptions' are you alluding to?

[@tadroid3858]

Thank you! I'm currently reading his short stories.

[@richardshiggins704]

Fascinating review of this smouldering volcano . He and his family were a case study of the role genetics can play in mental disorders . Looking forward to part two .

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you.

[@claudettedelphis6476]

So true

[@EndingSimple]

Thank you for clarifying the business about his mother dressing him up as girl when he was an infant. I know from other biographies that that was pretty common back then. You have made clear that his real damages came from his genetics and the wear and tear his adventurous life gave him.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

I think the whole dressing him up in dresses issue is overplayed.

[@genxx2724]

My grandfather was of the same generation. Born in Mexico, raised in Texas. He was dressed in gowns, with long hair in pigtails, and wearing a beaded necklace. I think back then a baby was a baby. I think it’s unfortunate that these days everything in the baby stores is either pink or blue, and people are eager to dress baby boys in jeans and cut their hair. They have their entire lives to have short hair and demonstrate their masculinity. I like the baby stage, and waiting to cut their hair until they’re a couple of years old.

[@mhd5826]

My brothers were born in the 50s in England and even then it was the usual thing to dress female AND male babies in gowns. We have family photos of each of the boys in frilly gowns as infants.I suggest that those on the left, the progressives, routinely judge the idiosyncracies of the past (cherry-picked to boot) to validate their modern day claims and assertions, especially about gender and sexuality. Wearing a dress does not make you female.

[@lotus-lotus]

@@genxx2724I came from a country where doesn’t have a color code for babies. It’s a very strange concept for me to understand at first. Also I learned later on that elderly in the US does not value that much; whereas in our culture, elderly is respected greatly.

[@slinkymalinki1001]

Could never read Hemingway because of his cruelty to animals, but thankyou for the narration, brilliant as ever. .

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thanks for watching.

[@paulalb-n2f]

I agree . I hoped I'd become more sophisticated with age re the animals, but here I am older but still unable to get thru Death in the Afternoon.

[@wai-q2k]

Thank you, Professor Graeme Yorston. Hemingway is one of my favorite writers. As a former adjunct lecturer, I often assigned many of his short stories to my classes. However, as a Kenyan and someone who believes in conservation, his reckless killings of our animals have always bothered me. Ditto Ted Roosevelt who also accumulated trophies of the animals he shot on Safari. No idea why some people enjoy destroying creatures and things that make this world more beautiful and to live in. William Holden was different. He was a Conservationist before it was fashionable to be one. As a result, many Kenyans liked and admired him immensely. As a child I never appreciated our wildlife and it amused me to see foreigners get fascinated by it. Today, I know that Kenya, which is the only country in the world with an animal park in the middle of the city, and the rest of Africa are the luckiest places on earth.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

I think it is a throw back to the obsession Northern Europe's kings' had with hunting and its association with power and wealth.

[@wai-q2k]

@@professorgraemeyorston True. Indeed, in this world there are those who build and those who destroy. Incidentally, as some commentators have noted here, you're a wonderful narrator. I am glad to have stumbled onto your channel. I look forward to more of your documentaries.

[@ThanaBrunges-mx7ji]

Amen! 🙏

[@ThanaBrunges-mx7ji]

I loved the comment about a “ proclivity for mental illness”! 😅

[@ThanaBrunges-mx7ji]

I did my family tree 🌴 it is rife with alcoholism and mental illness! 😅 Every generation seemed to have a strong mum and an alcoholic dad. And every generation succeeding had alcoholic children , some with bipolar illness. Who married other alcoholics and had successive generations of bipolar and alcoholic children. 🧒 It’s enough to lead one to think that alcoholism and bipolar illness are dominant traits! 😅

[@uratrick]

Once again Doctor thank you so much,what a beautiful piece of work. Factual and of course the English language spoken so well.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

You are very welcome.

[@dusanlonco4448]

Fantastic ! Just fantastic ! Wonderful job Professor.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thanks for watching.

[@DeutschmitMarija]

Wonderful documentary, thank you! ❤

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you.

[@salmapalmer2578]

Fascinating story and BRILLIANT NARRATOR thank you Asante Sana

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Wow, I don't get many Swahili comments. Karibu!

[@MsGaella]

Once again, a superb job. Thank you so much.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@Krullmatic]

Alright! another lovely Prof. Yorston video! i absolutely love your channel. good sir.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Glad you're enjoying it!

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Every time a notification from you comes up, I'm absolutely delighted!!❤🥰

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you.

[@CDory33]

Excellent in every way! You are a superlative presenter, Dr. Yorston.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you.

[@hank1519]

This is wonderful, and so is part 2. Thank you!

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Glad you enjoyed them!

[@ThanaBrunges-mx7ji]

I sure wish I had his writing talent! I first knew of him through my art history studies of Gertrude Stein and her famous salon.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Me too. What events those Gertrude Stein salons must have been.

[@richbarnard4524]

Once again, it's a pleasure. Thank you, and I can't wait for the next one to follow.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Hopefully released next Friday.

[@ELIOSANFELIU]

In my view,he was a philosopher¡¡His life was so intresting as well as a nice trip around the world and inside himself¡¡

[@greasygurl9386]

Nowadays when it comes to historical videos, I will only click on videos uploaded by an individual person with a real name instead of giant content farms because i fear I can’t trust anything being spit out of a random content farms with vague names. Glad people like you are still out here making well made content with good information, additionally, you are a great narrator, I could listen to these for hours.

[@mclagett1043]

Nicely done professor... You've got something good going here..

[@shannonwittman950]

I am sure enjoying your channel. This is like a part of college studies I appreciated so much, namely those rare intervals in class wherein a great Prof waxes pensive about the subject at hand. I could listen to him/her for hours, if we'd had the time. Once in awhile -- not often enough-- there'd be a successful transfer from classroom to local pub. And I agree completely with you; I admire the noble hunter who goes to it for food and is quick and accurate. Big game hunters are about as far from the noble hunter -- as to depart entirely from the definiiton.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you. I look forward to the invite to the pub!

[@jeremymahrer1832]

Well done, you even found some photos i haven't seen, looking forward to part two.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

I used 600 photos for the first and second parts and rejected another 200 for being too grainy! But it always the same fifty or so well known images that come on google searches, initially.

[@marknewton6984]

My favorite author. Waiting for Part 2. 😎

[@eileenbauer4601]

I visited his Key West home a few years back. There’s lots of cats around the house and yard who I think are the descendants of his original white cat I think named Snowflake. Most of them are 6-toed. Very cute! As for the dress when he’s a baby yes as you pointed out that was normal for little boys and very handy for diaper changing as you said. I have a photo of my dad from 1922 wearing a dress, not extremely frilly but definitely a dress. Great video!

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you. I'd love to visit the Hemingway homes.

[@marknewton6984]

The last great American man!

[@cheryl4811]

I am looking forward to part 2. I've always been a Hemingway fan.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Currently being edited, hopefully released next Friday.

[@marknewton6984]

Me too!

[@naomioshi]

This is great. Your narration is mzuri sana.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

More Swahili! Thank you.

[@dalifeliciano5637]

Love your soothing voice 🙏🏽

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indeed. His voice is wonderfully relaxing.

[@patbird9694]

Can’t wait for part 2. Enjoying all your bios by the way .

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you, Part 2 will hopefully be out this weekend.

[@BluMecker-ox6sx]

Really well done and thank you

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@sairakhan951]

Great work!! ❤

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you! 😄

[@mariecook622]

Thank you... so much for this indepth narrative of a man and his mental illness. There is so much I want to say and share with you, however this is u-tube. I appreciate the way you care about the whole metal illness issues we are all facing. I am dealing with my son and his chemical imbalances but I heavily relate to this great writer in ways I cannot explain in a few sentences. I too am a writer, though unpublished at this point due to my own traumatic upbringing and the scars it has left on me and my mind, and my emotions. I do write but I seem to lag in the lift off. I believe, truly that mental illness is a spiritual issue relating to the feeling of ot being wanted, unloved. Hands down, all the psychiatry in the world could nof diffuse this theory, I call life. We all need love, true love especially as children which I did not have and I can see through my own lens, how this has shaped my life. I became a giver, a pleaser. go figure

[@samsum3738]

Excellent . I shall be looking at part two . Thank you for the marvellous narration .

[@rayakhedker4003]

Dear Professor Yorston, I’m the one who asked you to do P.G. Wodehouse! Now I am requesting you to please look into the Collyer Brothers? As an impressionable 14 ur old, I read a novel based on their lives, written by journalist Marcia Davenport…(I am 63 now!) and read that novel-MY BROTHER’S KEEPER so many times, I have lost track of how many… And I know their story would fascinate you-and all your viewers and especially me, would benefit from your take on what brought on the madness in their lives, when they had everything: wealth, education, and privilege. Look them up!

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thanks, The Collyer Bros are on my radar. I'd love to do one on PGW but my to do list is getting longer and longer!

[@TosinAyomide-zl4vv]

Herminway life was indeed a story that created/ plotted itself. I feel so sad after watching this video😢

[@chrish2277]

I'll have to listen to this again. So much information! A fresh take on a very well known person.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you, part 2 should be out on Friday.

[@ellebelle8515]

Thank your for your engaging story telling--- also for sharing your reaction to Hemingway grinning proudly over his trophy kills; it is also always a problem for me. Hunting for most of history was a means of survival, but, for me, this kind of sport mentality over killing marks a great disconnection in a part the humanity of a person. Sadly, this was a sport that was largely encouraged and not frowned upon during his lifetime.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Yes, we have to place it in its context, his African trips were very much the type of thing that the wealthy elite indulged in, in his day.

[@steveerhart8777]

The narrative is very good. My own mother was bipolar. She was also an alcoholic. This dual diagnosis is actually more common than most realize.

[@ThanaBrunges-mx7ji]

Yes they have bipolar and try to self medicate with alcohol. 😅Becoming alcoholics in the process. 😮

[@ThanaBrunges-mx7ji]

I. Recovery , at least, medical model recovery ❤️‍🩹 we are encouraged to take groups in DBT skills to see if we are borderline vs bipolar. Once the correct diagnosis is arrived at we were given the option of taking the correct medications for bipolar illness, so that we could concentrate on our alcohol recovery program. 😅

[@gailgaddy5340]

Ty for the video, quite fascinating.😊

[@eleonorelemonnier9277]

Thank you for your videos, I love your tone, your British accent, your research and everything you teach us. I send you my best regards from France.

[@mariannewilson753]

A very informative documentary. You provide the best analysis of the subtleties of Hemingway's evolving mental state - especially the cumulative impact of his numerous head injuries - that I have found. As for his hunting activities, yes they were revolting but so was his compulsive destruction of beautiful fish that should have been left alone.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you.

[@MortalWeather]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@RenataCantore]

Thank you for your Marvelous presentation about The Maga Earnest Hemet ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thanks for watching!

[@aviratica6370]

I grew up by Walloon Lake and we used to wave hi to Sunny Hemingway.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

It looks a beautiful place!

[@marknewton6984]

Big Two-Hearted River! 😎

[@paulkweiner6577]

Excellent plus job !!!

[@Caligari...]

Very enjoyable . Thank You

[@GarryCochrane]

Excellent insight into those early years.

[@celiabassols]

Well done. Thank you.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thanks for watching!

[@septemberreign2310]

Riveting!! Can't wait for the follow up video.

[@justjoe942]

Enjoyed that very much; thanks for posting.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thanks for watching

[@lidijabasanovic9779]

А serious channel, love it.Very good,professor😊 all the best to you

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thanks! 😃

[@ghosty426]

Wow! This was very interesting. You've got Hemmingway well dissected so far as to what made him tick. I look forward to your next video about him. Hemmingway wrote a wonderful novel called "The Old Man and the Sea" that was required Summer reading back in my Prep School years in the early 70s. I was fortunate enough to read that during my Summer at Dauphin Island Alabama.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you, I'd love to know if he is still required reading today. I asked some of my junior colleagues about him .... and they had never heard of him!

[@ghosty426]

@@professorgraemeyorston I was privileged enough to attend Wyoming Seminary Prep school in the mid-70s. I had the opportunity to go back there in the early 2000s. Most of my Teachers were retired or deceased. Only a small handful were still alive and teaching back then. The curriculum and discipline and dress code we had in the 70s was really dumbed down but not quite as badly as the public schools.

[@ghosty426]

@@professorgraemeyorston Some other required reading back then were "Black Like Me" and "Catcher in the Rye" .

[@bendewet1057]

Well, I recently reread that book and found it quite mediocre, so much so that I think the Bloke would find it rather difficult to find a Publisher these Days.

[@ghosty426]

​@@bendewet1057 How about Kurt Vonnegut's works? He was required reading in College at Prep Schools back in the 70s. The late great Rodney Dangerfield made use of Mr Vonnegut's fame in the Movie "Back To School" in the 80s.

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

10 lifetimes couldn't come close to the life Hemingway lived

[@professorgraemeyorston]

He certainly packed it in.

[@Grace.allovertheplace]

Thank you 🙏

[@SherryHill-k5y]

He was so handsome as a young man and later on. I had no idea of the horrors he saw in the war. .

[@sharinaross1865]

Great narration

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you.

[@mikaelwester]

As a former family dr and therapist. Hemmingways life beats fiction. But I heard stories like that almost everyday..

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Yes, his trials and tribulations were not so very different from any one else's.

[@matthewblanchard9301]

Like many things in life I found part two before part one. Have made dozens of trips to Key West and would someday like to visit Cuba, but those days are slipping by me. Looking forward to a 'Key West Days' essay of Hemingway's life. Thank You Professor. 🎓

[@professorgraemeyorston]

They are meant to be stand alone videos, so no harm done.

[@jeffreyadams648]

Excellent recap.

[@Hyperspeed78]

😊 A master writer Dr.tyrone of Chester PA

[@professorgraemeyorston]

He was indeed.

[@rustyphillips1984]

Could you tell me what is on the white rolled paper maybe a letter he is holding in his hand in his portrait hanging in his home in Key West Florida???

[@francescagillon2018]

I have recently read a moveable feast and I believe that E. Hemingway loved his first wife but was forced to leave her by Pauline Pfeiffer. You should compare both dates of birth. It is amazing how very similar and close they were, both cancers.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

He had a roving eye and was always looking for something or someone new, but he always regretted leaving Hadley.

[@newforestpixie5297]

i’ve wasted a heck of a lot of time in the past few years on YT but some things have really improved- my knees have recovered after 40 years of work , I’ve learnt that Peter Ustinov was really funny & Ernest Hemingway was an adventurous & important writer whom had very little to do with pianos ….

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Cello yes, piano no!

[@Bsrleo44]

I have just discovered you 👏 marvellous biographies..

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Welcome aboard.

[@SzerenM]

Would you make a video on Steinbeck as well. Please!

[@ThanaBrunges-mx7ji]

I love John Steinbeck! ❤❤❤

[@speedtimothy]

Paris back-in-the-day must have been a delight ...ahh!

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Imagine sitting in a cafe and discussing the meaning in life with the most creative minds in Europe!

[@theseedistheword3603]

His mom was an enchanting, beautiful woman.

[@rensha7545]

This was fascinating!

[@Rollsgracie4]

Yes, this guy is a top, notch narrator someone in the comments, said that I concur but that’s about it not a storyteller no heartbeat

[@jonnicholas4719]

I love your videos...

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Glad you're enjoying them.

[@lilykatmoon4508]

I’m ashamed to admit, I’ve never read anything by Hemingway. Somehow my schooling didn’t include it. I remember Margeaux Hemingway and her short life. Mental illness has definitely affected that family so tragically. I’ll definitely find something of his to read just to try to get a sense of him. I also find big game hunting distasteful and those who kill just to kill for trophies make me sick. I’m really interested learn more about him!

[@professorgraemeyorston]

My sense is that his writing is not as popular as Fitzgerald or some other contemporaries, especially with the younger generation, and perhaps his image has something to do with this - not that Fitzgerald's is great!

[@EndingSimple]

With wolk has come a decidedly anti-masculine trend. But the recent popularity of the series SAS: Rogue Heroes gives me hope that this may be ending.

[@lindaoneill6323]

😮You are missing out. His writings stay with you for days. A moveable feast, For whom the bell tolls. Just wonderful.

[@anguswilliam2141]

Imagine if that stolen suitcase ever turned up. Wow that's amazing. He must have been furious, but he'd know thieves are thieves. Not her fault.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

That would be a find in an old junk shop!

[@robinshackelford473]

Please do Francis Farmer. Hers was a very twisted tale. You would do her story justice indeed. Thank you. I love your videos. Your son is very smart.

[@nippynf4l831]

Excellent!

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you.

[@bonniebluebell5940]

Always loved Hemingway.Think he might have been a lot better off had he and Hadley stuck it out and returned to Walloon Lake/ Lake Windermere? Wouldn't that have been grand? They could have made a few more trips up here to Canada as well.

[@bobtaylor170]

I'm only midway through this, but wanted to say that in my view, Sir Frederick Mott was one of history's greatest physicians. He didn't understand the mechanism of DAI, but his instinct that "shell shock" was caused by waves thrown off by exploding shells in some probable combination with psychological trauma was absolutely right. Predictably, as you know, the medical establishment rejected this in favor of an exclusively psychogenic hypothesis. I was unaware until now that Hemingway had been wounded by an exploding shell in WWI. When I consider that in 1954, he suffered two TBIs in separate plane crashes in a three day period, I'm not surprised his writing was paralyzed in his last years.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

There will be even more TBIs in part two, next week!

[@bobtaylor170]

@@professorgraemeyorston oh my, something to look forward to.😬

[@kunnakunna1508]

Thank you .l read Farewell to Arms when lwas quite young .He liked bull fighting and hunting .Such horrible games ,l believe .He also did not rain,l think..lt depressed him .Never knew he was a good looking man .Very talented .Thanks Prof.

[@joshclark1047]

Dude really was the main character

[@kathybrascher1910]

He was a great writer! But I agree with you on the big game hunting. Maybe it was more socially acceptable back then. I feel bad when I kill a spider…

[@ThanaBrunges-mx7ji]

Me too! 😅

[@6j6666]

I understand monitizing but interruption every 3 minutes?!

[@holykonni]

Thank you professor

[@ryangerardcomedy425]

what a life!

[@professorgraemeyorston]

He certainly packed it in.

[@Peace17292]

As a teenager I devoured Hemingway's books. Now, not so much. A hell of a writer in any case. Typo edit ..😊

[@The63blue]

me being a Englishman as well an enthusiast/connesier of English literature one of the main movements am into is the lost generation especially F Scott & Ernest both great writers I find your narration very condescending

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Why condescending?

[@ThanaBrunges-mx7ji]

Poor old Hemingway was a walking Petri dish! He sure had his share of illnesses! 😅❤❤❤

[@professorgraemeyorston]

And then some.

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Thank You ……Interesting To Know about This Mind …….🌞

[@elizabethramos8572]

It is so incredible that John Steinbeck could have stolen Hemingway’s wife. John Steinbeck’s book of letter was shocking reading! My source of the information.

[@leolacasse6278]

his story was far more interesting than his fiction stories.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

I think most of his novels were about himself - with just a few details changed.

[@leolacasse6278]

Maybe his greatest contribution was breaking us away from the Victorian style of writing to a simpler, less artful, more rational way of expressing oneself in literature.@@professorgraemeyorston

[@rubinsteinway]

Interesting style of doc. Nice that you used Holst's Mars in the war years.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Thank you.

[@Research0digo]

Graeme, I see you still feel the need to present your bric-a-brac to let us in on how fascinating you are, but I am relieved to not have to see the spines of not just one, but two HITLER books just above your head this video. Thank you.

[@anthonyakana5932]

I try to keep my style concise too. Thank you Papa.

[@hectormanuel9793]

In The Western Canon by Harold Bloom, he predicts that his posthumously published final novel, The Garden of Eden , left unfinished will out live his famous novels like The Old Man and the Sea. Would love to see, just exactly where will Hemingway be with readers in 50 years time? John Updike is not popular these days with americans, but outside of the United States, his Rabbit tetralogy is becoming the most representative of where we were in the post-war years and that along with the works of John Cheever they see what is happening with their rising middle-class and the mistakes that recall that era of prosperity and broken dreams.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Yes, who will be read in 50 years times, would be a great conversation to have. I suspect the list of Nobel laureates would be a pretty poor predictor, there are some great names on there, along with some pretty obscure ones.

[@hectormanuel9793]

@@professorgraemeyorston The writers with a shelf full of awards are not the predictors of longevity, if anything, the list of all those writers that didn't receive the Nobel Prize is quite a distinguished one over the list of those that did, is Ishiguro a better writer than John Updike, Philip Roth, John Barth, William Gaddis, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo or just about any of the great writers of the continents underrepresented, I think not!

[@bobkent2334]

Questions have been raised as to Hemingway's claim to have carried a soldier from the battlefield after he himself had been wounded by an exploding mortar round. After such an experience, he was probably in no shape to help anybody. As to the lost manuscripts in Paris, I recall (perhaps from an unpublished writing fragment?) that he later composed an account of Hadley ripping up the missing manuscripts and then falsely claiming they had been lost in the train station.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

He certainly embellished aspects of his life, but he definitely got a medal for whatever he did in Italy.

[@williamoverly1617]

I always thought Hemingway's macho characterizations set the stage for Clark Gable in films.

[@terry4137]

I loved his safari’s! I loved that he was a man’s man, intelligent, great writer, and sexy as hell!

[@professorgraemeyorston]

What about the rhinos and lions and leopards....?

[@HersheyVR10]

I need this for a project and they didn’t say what source to use

[@1ACL]

I just never could get into his books. I'm a bit embarrassed about it, and perhaps should try again...maybe those short essays...

[@professorgraemeyorston]

You could read all 18 of the In Our Time vignettes in a few minutes - I think they are unique and they really changed my view of Hemingway.

[@1ACL]

Thank you for the suggestion.@@professorgraemeyorston