What's New
- Please check our Online Resources section. The American Jewish Historical Society has just mounted a finding aid for the bullfighter, Sidney Franklin. He was known for his friendship with Hemingway and as a source for Death in the Afternoon.
- 2010 PEN/Hemingway Recipient and L. L. Winship/PEN New England Recipients Announced. Please see the press release for more information.
- J. D. Salinger letter to Ernest Hemingway displayed at 2010 PEN/Hemingway Awards Ceremony. Click for a New York Times ArtsBeat blog piece, Associated Press article, and interview between Tom Putnam, director of the JFK Library, and Scott Simon on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. A transcript of the Awards Ceremony is available online.
- We are happy to announce the 2010 Hemingway Research Grant Award Recipients - Lillian M. Barnes and Gro Frolund.
- Letters from the Museum Ernest Hemingway are now open to the public at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Click here and here for two news articles on the release of the letters.
- A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition with a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway and introduced and edited by Sean Hemingway was released on July 14 2009. Click here and here for reviews and here for an interview with Patrick and Sean.
- in his time: Ernest Hemingway's Collection of Paintings and the Artists He Knew by Colette C. Hemingway is now available. An autographed copy may be requested when you join or renew your membership to the Friends of the Hemingway Collection at the contributing level. Click here to join or renew.
Past Forums and Transcripts
Past Hemingway/PEN Award Ceremony Transcripts
Past Hemingway/PEN Award Recipients
• 2010 Brigid Pasulka A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
- 2009 Michael Dahlie A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
- 2008 Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End
- 2007 Ben Fountain Brief Enounters with Che Guevara
- 2006 Yiyun Li A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
- 2005 Chris Abani Graceland
- 2004 Jennifer Haigh Mrs. Kimble
- 2003 Gabriel Brownstein The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W
- 2002 Justin Cronin Mary and O'Neil
- 2001 Akhhil Sharma An Obedient Father
- 2000 Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies
- 1999 Rosina Lippi Homestead
- 1998 Charlotte Bacon A Private State
- 1997 Ha Jin Oceans of Words
- 1996 Chang-Rae Lee Native Speaker
- 1995 Susan Power The Grass Dancer
- 1994 Dagoberto Gilb The Magic of Blood
- 1993 Edward P. Jones Lost in the City
- 1992 Louis Begley Wartime Lies
- 1991 Bernard Cooper Maps to Anywhere
- 1990 Marck Richard The Ice at the Bottom of the World
- 1989 Jane Hamilton The Book of Ruth
- 1988 Lawrence Thornton Imagining Argentina
- 1987 Mary Ward Brown Tongues of Flame
- 1986 Alan V. Hewar Lady's Time
- 1985 Josephine Humphreys Dream of Sleep
- 1984 Joan Chase During the Reign of the Queen of Sheba
- 1983 Bobbie Ann Mason Shiloh and Other Stories
- 1982 Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping
- 1981 Joan Silber Household Words
- 1980 Alan Saperstein Mom Kills Kids and Self
- 1979 Reuben Bercovitch Hasen
- 1978 Darcy O'Brien A Way of Life, Like Any Other
- 1977 Renata Adler Speedboat
- 1976 Loyd Little Parthian Shot
Past News Releases
Friends of the Ernest Hemingway Collection Newsletter
John F. Kennedy Library Newsletters