Hemingway's Paris

Merry Christmas to all of Hem's fans! "Evening in Paris" by Liza Hirst.

The top photos and paintings are of Montmartre in 1925, typical street scenes of Paris in the '20s: A narrow street in Montmartre, The M...

This satirical painting of Hemingway was done by his good friend and fishing companion, Waldo Peirce. A critic had remarked that Hemingway l...

Cirque d' Hiver Hemingway loved to box, it was part of his essence, essential to the core of his personality. (That is...

Harry's New York Bar, 5 rue Daunou (sank roo doe noe, to the Yanks), was a popular hangout for American expats, including Hemingway. Ern...

Paris Street Scene Prostitute, Paris Cafe, Paris, 1924 6AM Eugene Atget (1857-1927) was one of the most artistic photographers of Paris in ...

The sidewalk cafes of Paris and the circle of friends that Hemingway met there is a central theme to "A Moveable Feast." He did ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald was perhaps the most famous of the Jazz Age writers, (he supposedly coined the phrase himself). F. Scott Fitzgerald embo...

After Ernest gave up horseracing, he discovered cycling and liked it more than betting on the horses. A friend of his, Mike Ward, told him t...

This week it is the "running of the bulls" in Pamplona, Northern Spain, at the Festival of San Fermin. Young men have been partic...

Palais d'Hiver Art Deco Steamship and Night life in Hemingway's Paris, Art Deco style.

In honor of "Bloomsday" - June 16th - a photo of James Joyce, the creator of Leopold Bloom and Bloom's world in "Ulysses...

When Ernest and Hadley lived at 74 rue Cardinale Lemoine, a Bal-Musette was in the basement. Bal-Musette was a style of French music that wa...

(I added this post because YouTube had stopped running the film clip just before this one. Well, I guess your cards, letters & calls of ...

Photos of the rue Mouffetard, a Paris street full of markets and stalls. The top photo shows the rue Mouffetard where it meets the Place Co...

Gargoyle on Notre Dame, Paris

Ernest first went to Europe as a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross during World War I. (The top photo shows him in 1918.) He pa...

Hemingway loved to fish, and on his fourth trip to Pamplona he did some trout fishing in the Irati River in the Pyrenes. After the Festival ...

Some Color to break up the blog. Barges on the Seine in Winter in the 1920's