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 ...

In an age of endless words, Hemingway wrote with a rifleman’s precision. Here’s how. He didn’t waste ink. He stripped sentences down to their bare bones and nerves. His sentences were clean, sharp, ...

When Ernest Hemingway moved to Paris in 1921, he tacked a Michigan map up in his writing room. Michigan inspired Hemingway's stories, and his parents planted Hemingway's local roots before he was born ...

Ernest Hemingway was one of the great innovators in literary form. His apparent renunciation of stylistic flourishes—the absence of lyrical rhetoric, the spare sketching of context, the paring of ...

Admission for kids 5 and younger is free. Hemingway, who lived in the Spanish colonial home with his second wife Pauline and their two sons, owned the property until his death in 1961. It became a ...