Papa Hemingway: The Man Who Lived His Legend
About this episode
This episode explores the life and legacy of Ernest Hemingway, highlighting his adventurous experiences and literary contributions.
On July 21st, 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and honestly, if there was ever a writer whose birthday deserved a toast with something strong and neat, it's his. Hemingway grew up to become one of the most towering and mythologized figures in American letters, a man who seemed determined to live a life so big and so dangerous that it would practically write itself into his novels. He drove ambulances in World War One and got seriously wounded in Italy, an experience that later fueled A Farewell to Arms. He palled around the cafes of Paris in the nineteen twenties with fellow expatriates like Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald, soaking up the atmosphere that would become The Sun Also Rises. He covered the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, which gave the world For Whom the Bell Tolls. He survived two plane crashes in Africa within a span of just two days, crashes so severe that newspapers actually printed his obituary prematurely, and Hemingway reportedly had the pleasure of reading his own death notices while nursing his injuries. He was also just a wildly larger than life character off the page. He boxed. He fished for marlin off the coast of Cuba. He…
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