Facing writer's block, Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway found solace in a simple rule: write one undeniably true sentence.

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 ...

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 ...

If Ernest Hemingway were alive today, he would have just turned 117 years old. Just think how many more amazing books he could have written if he were still alive. Tragically, Hemingway committed ...

Ernest Hemingway wrote that all American literature derived from one book, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In a similar sense, one could argue that modern English prose owes its debt to ...

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 ...

In his novel “To Have and Have Not,” Ernest Hemingway painted a compelling portrait of Depression-era Key West, his home in ...