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 ...

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 ...

Hemingway's reputation has suffered immensely over the last two or three decades. Read around enough and you'll see this. And I can feel it when I occasionally confess to people — for you don't tell ...

Ernest Hemingway was one of the great innovators in literary form. His apparent renunciation of stylistic flourishes—the absence of lyrical rhetoric, the spare sketching of context, the paring of ...

KEY WEST, Fla. — Any trip to this sparkling treasure of a city surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico’s turquoise waters would not be compete without a visit to The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum. The ...

Windows/Mac: Hemingway was originally a clever little web that highlighted common writing errors to help you edit. Then, it came to desktop. Now, it’s getting a free update that adds in a new ...

“Most technical writing is awful,” says Adam Long, who works in marketing. “Ever read the full manual for a new gadget, or even for your car? Me neither–they’re verbose, confusing, and use jargon the ...

This week, in the Times, Charles McGrath wrote about a newly digitized collection of ephemera from Ernest Hemingway’s Cuban estate, Finca Vigía, which confirms that the famously terse writer was, as ...