Tim O’Brien, on death in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" Ernest Hemingway reading on his boat, Pilar, 1947-1948. Credit: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum ...

Born on July 21. 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway was the second-oldest of six siblings. His mother was a local musician who taught him to play the cello while his father brought him out to the family’s ...

There is a civil war going on and Jordan who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era -- like Ernest Hemingway and ... a bridge in a cave. Pilar, who is in charge ...