Monday, September 19, 2011
Penn State faculty research about Ernest Hemingway spanning nearly six decades has resulted in both the first scholarly work published about the author and, this fall, the series debut of his only remaining unpublished work: his letters. The first volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway -- overseen by Sandra Spanier, general editor of the Hemingway Letters Project and Penn State professor of English -- was published Tuesday (Sept. 20) by Cambridge University Press. Its publication comes nearly 60 years after her doctoral mentor and one of the earliest and most influential Hemingway scholars, Evan Pugh Professor of English Philip Young, authored the first scholarly book about Hemingway in 1952. Young was one of the earliest and most influential Hemingway scholars. (more)
Monday, March 17, 2008
"Hemingway Writing Home: Letters to His Family 1917-1957" is on display through May 30 in the exhibits hall of the Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library, University Park. The exhibit presents family photographs and a selection of heretofore-unseen letters, amassed by his sister Madelaine "Sunny" Hemingway Mainland and passed on to her son, Ernest Hemingway Mainland.
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
Penn State's newly acquired collection of novelist Ernest Hemingway's letters to his family reveals new facets and enriches our understanding of these primary personal relationships, according to Sandra Spanier, professor of English and general editor of the Hemingway Letters Project, an international effort to gather and publish his more than 6,000 letters. (more)
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Penn State's University Libraries have acquired an important collection of Ernest Hemingway correspondence, the last sizeable and significant known collection of the famed novelist's letters still in private hands. Amassed by his sister Madelaine "Sunny" Hemingway Mainland and passed on to her son, Ernest Hemingway Mainland, the set includes more than 100 unpublished letters, telegrams, and notes from Hemingway to his family between 1917 and 1957. The correspondence contains fresh accounts of experiences that he later transformed into fiction, and provides new insights into the course of his relationships with his parents, siblings, wives, and sons. (more)
