We were writers in residence at the Hemingway House in Ketchum, Idaho for two weeks in November 2024. Thank you to The Community Library team for our stay in such a magical place!
As guests of the house, we were invited to give a talk, and we discussed General Lanham’s impact on Hemingway’s literature. Here’s a link to the presentation:https://vimeo.com/showcase/tcl-archive
Lanham and Hemingway were together for the story Hemingway refused to write. Check out “Hemingway’s Driver in Wartime France: A Matter of Loyalties” featuring Hemingway’s French resistance driver accused and convicted of being a German collaborator. This appears in the Fall 2024 issue of The Hemingway Review, which you can read through your library or by ordering from the Hemingway Society. The cover image is from Greer’s father’s scrapbook, from the time that he and his mother went to Paris to visit General Lanham at his European command headquarters.
In July 2024, the 22nd Infantry Regiment Society published our piece about the Houffalize Bridge in Belgium featuring Hemingway, Lanham and the industrious townspeople who rebuilt the bridge after German bombings, allowing the Allies to cross and continue the fight. The piece is on pages 4-9 here.
Here is Eileen at the July 2024 Hemingway Society conference in Bilbao, presenting a paper about Hemingway’s 60th birthday party in Málaga. Greer came down with Covid on the last day of the conference, so Eileen gave this presentation. General Lanham is on the left in the photo, with Hemingway and other guests.
In July 2024, the Hemingway Newsletter published our essay about an original Hemingway poem we found at Princeton. We presented an overview of the poem research at the July 2024 Hemingway Society conference. Here is a PDF:
In May 2024, the Army’s Harding Project published this piece:
In December 2023, the Hemingway Society published this short piece about one of Hemingway’s heroes, a top general to Napoleon: https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/napoleons-general-michel-ney-hemingways-imaginary-dinner-guest
Military Review, the professional journal of the U.S. Army, published our article in its September-October 2023 issue. Take a look: http://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/September-October-2023/Pen-and-Sword/
The Hemingway Society published “What Was Hemingway’s Devil Box” in December 2022. Have a peek at this short blog: https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/what-was-hemingways-devil-box
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Later this year, the Princeton University Library Chronicle will publish our story of this print gifted by Hemingway to Lanham, signed with an enigmatic inscription commemorating their time on World War II battlefields.
