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DIED. MARTHA GELLHORN, 89, war correspondent, novelist and, only incidentally, Ernest Hemingway's third wife; in London. Gellhorn's dispatches, first filed during the Spanish Civil War and continuing through World War II and Vietnam, focused on the ordinary and powerless. An avid traveler and prolific journalist, she also wrote novels and short stories. Gellhorn married Hemingway in 1940. She left him five years later, the only one of his four wives to do so. He reportedly remained bitter for the rest of his life, and she remained irritated for being best known as his former wife...
DIED. JIMMIE ALBRIGHT, 82, fly-fishing adviser to the famous--among them, Ernest Hemingway and Jimmy Stewart; in Islamorada, Fla. Albright's other contributions to the sport were more tangible: he invented the nail knot and a hitch called the Albright special...
Writing is a deceptive activity. It appears to the general public, and to that lesser breed of writers, as an activity, something to be put on a summer camp agenda, if you will. The image of the writer is Hemingway at his typewriter in the jungle, or Woody Allen in his New York apartment...
Once labeled a potential "kiss of death" by novelist Saul Bellow, after he won the prize in 1976, the Nobel can be a bittersweet distinction. For William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, the prize was a swan song, a tribute to past masterpieces whose greatness their subsequent work did not approach. For others, it's just a very prestigious distraction. Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 laureate, complained that the prize destroyed her cherished privacy by turning her into an "official person." According to Jonathan Galassi, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Gordimer's and Walcott's publisher...
...chosen and edited by Pulitzer prizing winning author E. Annie Proulx (The Shipping News, Accordion Crimes). Proulx offers a good variety of style and content--everything from T. Coraghessan Boyle's strikingly titled exploration of the abortion rights conflict "Killing Babies" to Robert Stone's "Under the Pintons" a Hemingway-esque man-and-the-elements tale. Proulx has selected precisely crafted works that stand on their own--making her surprising attempt to unify them in four "chapter" titles ("Manners and Right Behavior," "Identifying the Stranger," "Perceived Social Values," and "Rites of Passage") somewhat unnecessary...