REMEMBERING ERNEST
HEMINGWAY
by James Plath and Frank Simons
with a foreword by Lorian Hemingway
The Ketch & Yawl Press, 1999
168pp./30 photographs
Softcover $12.95
Hardcover $19.95
Limited Edition of 200 numbered copies
(signed by Plath, Simons & Hemingway) $40
Thirteen interviews with family and friends of the Nobel laureate,
published by The Ketch & Yawl Press, Key West, Fla.,
to commemorate the centennial of Ernest Hemingway's birth.
Included are interviews with:
- Charles & Lorine Thompson (close Key West friends)
- Betty Bruce (wife of Hemingway's major domo)
- Bill Geiser (the Thompson's major domo)
- Patrick Hemingway (the author's second son)
- Gregory Hemingway (the author's third son)
- Valerie Hemingway (the author's secretary,
who married
and divorced Gregory)
- Kermit "Shine" Forbes & James "Iron Baby" Roberts
(boxers who trained with Hemingway in Key West) photo
- L.T. Curry (Key West dockmaster during the '30s)
- Joe Allen (a newspaperman who bowled with Hemingway)
- Forrest MacMullen (an Idaho friend and hunting companion)
- Bud Purdy (another Idaho friend)
- Tillie Arnold (wife of Lloyd Arnold, who
photographed
Hemingway for the Union Pacific Railroad)
- William W. Seward (the only professor Hemingway
professed to really like)
about the authors
Available from The Ketch & Yawl Press, P.O. Box 5828, Lakeland
FL 33807-5828; by Fax to 1-706-632-1903; or e-mail mbbooks@tds.net. (Add
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