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Hemingway Collection Donated to the University of South Carolina

Thursday, September 27th, 2012
Ernest Hemingway writing

Ernest Hemingway at his writing desk during an African safari, 1953 (Photograph by Earl Theisen image via John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)

An extensive Ernest Hemingway collection compiled by a Mississippi physician was donated to the University of South Carolina Columbia and put on display at the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library for a special showing earlier this week.

Edgar Grissom, the 70-year-old collector and donor, has worked for more than 50 years in his quest to compile all of Hemingway’s English-language publications. He likened his pursuit to “an Easter egg hunt”, but now, at the end of his journey, he is delighted to assert that he has “the most complete collection of [Hemingway's] primary works in existence.”

William Rivers, chairman of USC’s English department, agrees. “It provides a tremendous resource. It makes writing real in a very powerful way,” Rivers said. “There is no other place in the world (more…)

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Yale Courses Available to the Public

Monday, July 30th, 2012

Yale LogoYale University provides incredible online access to a number of introductory courses through the Yale Open Courses program. The goal of the program is to “expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.” Course are free and offer virtual students a full set of class lectures and any other relevant materials. The course offerings are varied and cover a number of disciplines. I, as I suspect many readers of this blog would be, was particulariy interested in the English courses, which include Introduction to Theory of Literature, Milton, Modern Poetry, and The American Novel Since 1945.

A class that caught my particular attention was Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitgerald, taught by Professor Wai Chee Dimock. The course examines major works by the three authors, “exploring their interconnections on three analytic scales: the macro history of the United States and the world; the formal and stylistic innovations of modernism; and the small details of sensory input and psychic life.” I’ve included the course introduction after the jump.

Kudos to Yale for offering this wonderful open learning experience to all! (more…)

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Hemingway First Edition Found Among Book Donations

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Volunteers working for the CBC Calgary Reads book sale made an exciting discovery this week as they were sorting through the tens of thousands of donated books– a first edition of Hemingway’s classic The Old Man and the Sea.

An advisor on rare books for the sale, Gerry Morgan, says of the found copy, “The dust jacket is in very good condition which is fairly uncommon for a book from 1952 or 1953. It is not price-clipped, the price is still on the book. I think it’s $3.30. And the only marking inside is a light pencil previous owner signature.”  He estimates it’s worth to be between $1,000 and $1,200.

The Old Man and the Sea was the last major work of fiction published by Hemingway (1952).  It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953 and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as a considering factor when Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

The book will be offered in the CBC Calgary Reads book sale, which opens this Friday at noon.

Rare Hemingway found among book sale donations [CBC News]

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