But Matthiessen was hung up on what he saw as the deficiencies of his own. He was convinced Betty hadn’t loved him as much as she’d loved her other two children — something she eventually admitted was ...

Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway was one of the great 20th-century American novelists, and is known for works such as A ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set ...

The American Revolution premieres on WTTW on Sunday, November 16 through Friday, November 21 at 7:00 pm. All six parts will be free to stream on the PBS app starting Sunday, November 16 at 7:00 pm and ...

By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.

Few people can claim their birth informed the ending to one of the 20th century’s most iconic novels. But that was the case for Patrick Hemingway. Patrick was born in 1928, just as his father, Ernest, ...

In 1939, Hemingway returned to Havana, Cuba and bought the Finca Vigía with Martha. In the spring of 1939, Ernest Hemingway returned to Havana, Cuba where Martha Gellhorn would later join him. Martha ...

Ernest Hemingway’s war wound, incurred while serving as a teenager with the Red Cross on the Italian-Austrian front in July 1918, was the most important event in his life. It inspired his themes—war, ...

It’s a shame, really, that Ernest Hemingway never chanced an encounter with high-quality tequila before he died in 1961. It feels a little like a child who never got to meet his grandfather—to cradle ...

Patrick Hemingway was comfortable in the shadow of his famous father, Ernest Hemingway. Though the elder Hemingway was famously troubled and mercurial, their affection was deep and mutual. “I would ...

FOX News contributor Mollie Hemingway reacts to the public support for the assassination of Charlie Kirk in an interview with FOX News host Laura Ingraham. "I think a really important first step would ...