RARE Orignal Card KW to CUBA Signed ERNEST HEMINGWAY to GIL BROTHERS Finca Vigia

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Parting out of long time Hemingway Collection from deceased family member.....SEE OTHER ITEMS LISTED! RARE Original Card of demolished Convent of Mary Immaculate in Key West sent to CUBA Signed by ERNEST HEMINGWAY to the GIL BROTHERS, Roberto and Leonardo at the Finca La Vigia referred to as the Casa Blanca in La Habana....... About a purchased small boat Hemingway paid $450 for. Mentions to give to Luis the Carpenter.... Signed " you papa, EH" ....... Measures 3.5"X5.5"........ Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction , while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature .Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois . After high school he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star , before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers . In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms . In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson , the first of his four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent , and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s " Lost Generation " expatriate community. The Sun Also Rises , Hemingway's first novel, was published in 1926.After his 1927 divorce from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer . They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War where he had been a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls . Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. They separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II . He was present at the Normandy Landings and the liberation of Paris .Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida , and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho , where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961. Biography Early life Ernest Hemingway was the second child, and first son, born to Clarence and Grace Hemingway. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois , a suburb of Chicago. [1] His father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was a physician, and his mother, Grace Hall-Hemingway, was a musician. Both were well-educated and well-respected in the conservative community of Oak Park, [2] a community about which resident Frank Lloyd Wright said, "So many churches for so many good people to go to". [3] For a short period after their marriage, [4] Clarence and Grace Hemingway lived with Grace's father, Ernest Hall, who eventually became their first son's namesake. [note 1] Later Ernest Hemingway would say he disliked his name, which he "associated with the naive, even foolish hero of Oscar Wilde 's play The Importance of Being Earnest ". [5] The family eventually moved into a seven-bedroom home in a respectable neighborhood with a music studio for Grace and a medical office for Clarence. [2] Hemingway's mother frequently performed in concerts around the village. As an adult, Hemingway professed to hate his mother, although biographer Michael S. Reynolds points out that Hemingway mirrored her energy and enthusiasm. [6] Her insistence that he learn to play the cello became a "source of conflict", but he later admitted the music lessons were useful to his writing, as is evident in the " contrapuntal ... read more

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