In fact, he loved cigars and found smoking very relaxing. Other fun facts about the author: His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His father died of pneumonia when he… Read More »Did You Know That Mark Twain Started Smoking When He Was 8 Years Old?
The following is a guest post by Steven Donahue, author of Where Freedom Rings. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail… Read More »Strong Female Characters
Last June, I spent a week in Chicago with my family, and I was surprised to learn that this was where Ernest Hemingway was born and where he spent his early childhood.… Read More »Hemingway and Chicago
In October 2011, I had read an article in Vanity Fair that detailed how Jenny Phillips, the granddaughter of Maxwell Perkins, Hemingway’s editor, orchestrated the rescue of documents stored in… Read More »Hemingway’s Documents Found in Cuba Have Been Digitized
A few weeks ago, I was on vacation in Cuba, the very country Ernest Hemingway fell in love with. He started going there in 1932 because he loved fishing. He… Read More »Hemingway and Cuba
