It has been a great year to be a dead author. Deceased thriller writers Steig Larsson, Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy, and Ian Fleming all have new books out. The… Read more »

Along with the flowers and candles placed at the sites of last Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, mourners are also leaving copies of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. Bookstores are moving lots of… Read more »

Last week, MobyLives wrote about the correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, who, before he died, issued explicit instructions that his letters were not to be published after his death. A seven-volume… Read more »

Before his death in July of 1961, Ernest Hemingway wrote a letter to the executors of his estate saying, “It is my wish that none of the letters written by… Read more »

Dear Bill, So, aside from the goring, Mrs. Lincoln, how was your trip to Spain? Ha, ha. I kid, I kid. But our team was sorry to hear about all… Read more »

Haruki Murakami’s new book, Onna no Inai Otokotachi [provisionally translated as “Men Without Women”], hit Japanese bookstores last week, providing, once again, proof of an unusual natural phenomenon: the ability… Read more »

If you’ve been after an original letter from Ernest Hemingway that includes a giant rubber whale, a WWI mine launcher, and some pillow talk… boy, this must be your lucky… Read more »

Oh, did you need to spit out that gum? Don’t worry, Ernest Hemingway has a wrapper you can borrow. Hemingway was a notorious pack rat: an archivist’s dream and a… Read more »

Rejection doesn’t have to last forever. In the case of Hemingway and Vanity Fair, it only lasted 89 years. When young Ernest submitted “My Life in the Bull Ring with Donald… Read more »

Enough with the Royal Baby already. Wouldn’t you like to see baby Papa standing in the ocean in an adorable hat? To commemorate the author’s 114th birthday, the JFK Library… Read more »