When it comes to writing a book, there are many reasons to emulate the masters. Proust famously wrote in bed, while Joan Didion took an hour before dinner to read that day’s writing with a drink in ...

Ernest Hemingway is famous for his drinking, but he never said "write drunk, edit sober." Discover the true, surprising origin of this legendary literary myth.

Did Hemingway Really Say ‘Write Drunk, Edit Sober’? For decades, the phrase “write drunk, edit sober” has been linked to ...

Hemingway's reputation has suffered immensely over the last two or three decades. Read around enough and you'll see this. And I can feel it when I occasionally confess to people — for you don't tell ...

Fifty-four years ago, on a July day in 1961, the world awoke to the horrendous news that a giant of American literature had died at his own hand, from a shotgun blast to the head, just days short of ...

Ernest Hemingway’s World War I novel, “A Farewell to Arms” (1929), is an exception among products of early 20th-century Modernism. While it is innovative in its rendering of conversation and painterly ...

Windows/Mac: Hemingway was originally a clever little web that highlighted common writing errors to help you edit. Then, it came to desktop. Now, it’s getting a free update that adds in a new ...

KEY WEST, Fla., June 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- In his novel "To Have and Have Not," Ernest Hemingway painted a compelling portrait of Depression-era Key West, his home in the 1930s. The 2026 Hemingway ...

This week, in the Times, Charles McGrath wrote about a newly digitized collection of ephemera from Ernest Hemingway’s Cuban estate, Finca Vigía, which confirms that the famously terse writer was, as ...