In 1934, Ernest Hemingway wrote a blunt letter to his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald advising him to stop focusing on self-pity ...

This popular quote is often attributed to Ernest Hemingway since, you know, he was happy to have a drink or two. I’ve never believed A) that he said or wrote it, or B) that he practiced it. In fact, ...

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 ...

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 was one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. His most popular work, The Old Man and the Sea, earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and in 1954 Hemingway won the Nobel ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Hollywood legends and real life. The recent HBO film, Hemingway & Gellhorn, Hemingway’s son Patrick said, is “so ...