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Picture of Ernest Hemingway, author of Three Stories and Ten Poems; novelist and poet; twentieth century American Literature and poetry


 
August 13, 1923
Ernest Hemingway   (1899 - 1961)
 
Hemingway's Three Stories and Ten Poems
 
by Steve King

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On this day in 1923 Ernest Hemingway published his first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems. This was an edition of 300 copies, put out by friend and fellow expatriate, the writer -- publisher Robert McAlmon. Both had arrived in Paris in 1921, Hemingway an unpublished twenty-two-year-old journalist with a recent bride, a handful of letters of introduction provided by Sherwood Anderson, and a clear imperative: "All you have to do is write one true sentence." This effort would take place in his garret hotel room and in the cafĂ© -- bars where, if you were lucky, the oysters were fresh, the wine was dry, the girls were pretty and life was A Moveable Feast ...   FULL STORY »Luminary Graphics, Inc.
 
 
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