Friday, July 21, 2006
This Day in American History
On this day in 1899, in Oak Park, IL, Ernest Hemingway was born. He went on to become quite a good writer, winning a Pulitzer in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He can't hold a candle to Joyce or Faulkner, but I like some of his novels and many of his stories, particularly the ones involving fly fishing. To Have and Have Not, with the script punched up by Faulkner, made quite a good movie in 1944. The rest of the films from his books--not so good.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:15 AM 
