Hemingway's Paris

Modigliani , Picasso, And Andre Salmon Picasso And His Mistress Paquerette In March, 1922, Hemingway wrote an article for the Toronto Daily ...

In Schwarzwald Chink Dorman-Smith Black Forest Gasthaus Rossele Paris was very hot a...

Ernest and Hadley sailed for Paris on December 8, 1921. They left from New York on the steamship Leopoldina, an old French Line vessel. It w...

Four paintings by Pissarro. The blog needs a little color every now and then to compliment the vintage black and white photos. If you are fa...

Léonard Lipp opened his brasserie in the 1870's after fleeing Alsace during the Franco-Prussian War. The menu is typical of that region ...

Man Ray was born, Emmanuel Radnitzky (August 27, 1890–November 18, 1976) in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He spent most of his career i...

These three photos of Hemingway are from 1923, taken in Paris by Man Ray, whose self-portrait is at the top. Judging by the tie, shirt,...

Some shots of the sidewalk cafes - and inhabitants - that were such an elemental part of Hemingway's life in the Paris years. The first ...

In honor of "Bloomsday" - June 16th. The day when James Joyce's  Leopold Bloom roams Dublin in "Ulysses."

When Ernest and Hadley first arrived in Paris, they had Christmas dinner at The Cafe de la Paix, a cafe on the Right Bank. When the bill cam...

July 7th marks the beginning of the "running of the bulls" in Pamplona, Northern Spain, at the Festival of San Fermin. Young men ...

These two photos of Ernest are new to me. They were brought to my attention by a writer friend and Hemingway fan, Joe Grant. Joe's best ...