Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Pittenger, Hueston Wilmot
- Abstract:
- Articles by and about Ernest Hemingway published in magazines.
- Extent:
- 1.5 linear feet (4 boxes)
- Language:
- Languages represented in the collection: English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ernest Hemingway collection . Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont University Consortium.
Background
- Scope and content:
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There are two categories of material in the collection: magazine articles about Hemingway written by journalists and scholars over three decades, and articles written by Ernest Hemingway published in magazines during his lifetime.
- Biographical / historical:
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Ernest Hemingway ranks among the most famous of twentieth-century American writers. His writing career was varied and celebrated. He was a journalist and war correspondent and published dozens of short stories and ten novels, among which are counted some of the most important American novels ever written. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea; the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954; and the Award of Merit from American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1954. Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, IL; he committed suicide, July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, ID. He married four times and had three children.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift from H. W. Pittenger, 1962.
- Physical location:
- Please consult repository.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection open for research.
- Terms of access:
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All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Special Collections.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ernest Hemingway collection . Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont University Consortium.
- Location of this collection:
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800 N. Dartmouth Ave.Claremont, CA 91711, US
- Contact:
- (909) 607‑3977