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DIED. Adriana Ivancich, 53, aristocratic Venetian socialite and prizewinning artist of dust covers for Ernest Hemingway's books, who as a beauty of 18 was beloved of the aging, alcoholic writer and inspired Renata, the heroine of his 1950 novel, Across the River and into the Trees; by her own hand (she hanged herself from a tree); at her farm in Capalbio, Italy. In a 1980 book, The White Tower, she contended that the love story had been more a father-daughter relationship than a May-December scandal...
...Hemingway made it his happiest hunting ground. Isak Dinesen, in Out of Africa, compared it to England in the 18th century, when an aristocrat might possess a "lovely landscape and a multitude of servants." For Cyril Connolly, however, the East African colony of Kenya was no paradise lost. It was the site of a 1941 murder that obsessed the British essayist and critic for a decade. By the time Connolly died in 1974, he had come tantalizingly close to finding the answer to the question that had mesmerized two generations of colonial society: Who shot Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl...
They invented the summer season on the Riviera. The guest list at their 14-room Villa America near Antibes included Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. F. Scott Fitzgerald used the Murphys as models for Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night. They were the subjects of Calvin Tomkins' 1971 bestseller Living Well Is the Best Revenge...
...Monday, and they were sitting at Harry's Bar and American Grill in a city called Los Angeles. It was judgment night for the Sixth Annual International Imitation Hemingway Competition. If you have been to Ernest Hemingway judgment night, then you know how it is. Six judges reading the entries. Spare lean entries. Parodies. The winner was a woman named Lynda Leidiger, 30, with a story about a Valley Girl in a shopping mall. "In the Galleria, it was fine. Sometimes clean and warm and bright. Sometimes clean and warm and cold . .. She had been there as long...
...paper, but one that lives within us ... and nourishes a source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty." The problem, said the novelist, was how to tell the story. The region's writers found solutions in aesthetic imports: French surrealism, the journalistic devices of Dos Passes and Hemingway, and the narrative techniques of cinema...