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Explore the Ernest Hemingway Photographs collection, including digitized scrapbooks, and additional materials that document the life and work of the author and his family, friends, and contemporaries.
Accession Number: MR1994-008 Description: Ernest Hemingway reads his remarks prepared for the Noble Prize Banquet. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 "for his mastery of the art of
While Ernest Hemingway and President Kennedy never met, President Kennedy more than once expressed his admiration for Hemingway and his work. In the opening sentence of his own Pulitzer Prize winning
Soon after Hemingway's suicide in 1961, the Cuban government told Mary Hemingway they were making a museum of the Finca Vigia, the Hemingways' Cuban home. The Hemingways had not lived in Cuba since
Every spring, the JFK Library hosts the PEN/Hemingway Award celebration to honor an author for their first work of fiction. Learn about past PEN/Hemingway award winners here.
Learn about requesting permission to publish portions of Ernest Hemingway’s writings.
Accession Number: EH02723P Description: Portrait of Ernest Hemingway as an American Red Cross volunteer during World War I, Milan, Italy. Credit Line: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy
Accession Number: EH-C10156A Description: Portrait of Ernest Hemingway by Waldo Peirce. Signed by the artist, lower right: "For Ernest (alias Kid Balzac) Key West first April /29 - WP". In the Ernest
The Ernest Hemingway Personal Papers includes textual and audiovisual material donated to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library by Mary Welsh Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway's widow) and additional
Quick links to the JFK Library & Foundation's Hemingway programming, from exhibits to events.
Hemingway's children: John ("Bumby"/"Jack") Hadley Nicanor Hemingway, Patrick ("Mouse") Miller Hemingway, Gregory/Gloria ("Gigi") Hancock Hemingway.