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H1962.1
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Title: Ernest Hemingway collection
Dates: 1923-1970
Bulk Dates: 1950-1970
Collection number: H1962.1
Collector:
Pittenger, Hueston Wilmot
Collection Size:
1.5 linear feet
(4 boxes)
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd
Library.
Claremont, CA 91711
Abstract: Articles by and about Ernest Hemingway published in
magazines.
Physical location: Please consult repository.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
Collection open for research.
All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Special
Collections.
[Identification of item], Ernest Hemingway collection . Special Collections,
Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont University Consortium.
Gift from H. W. Pittenger, 1962.
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.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Hemingway, Ernest -- 1899-1961