Fifty-four years ago, on a July day in 1961, the world awoke to the horrendous news that a giant of American literature had died at his own hand, from a shotgun blast to the head, just days short of ...

Windows/Mac: Hemingway was originally a clever little web that highlighted common writing errors to help you edit. Then, it came to desktop. Now, it’s getting a free update that adds in a new ...

When it comes to writing a book, there are many reasons to emulate the masters. Proust famously wrote in bed, while Joan Didion took an hour before dinner to read that day’s writing with a drink in ...

This week, in the Times, Charles McGrath wrote about a newly digitized collection of ephemera from Ernest Hemingway’s Cuban estate, Finca Vigía, which confirms that the famously terse writer was, as ...

He called her "Kraut," and she called him (what else?) "Papa." Ernest Hemingway and Marlene Dietrich met while traveling across the Atlantic on the Ile de France in 1934. Their friendship lasted until ...

“Most technical writing is awful,” says Adam Long, who works in marketing. “Ever read the full manual for a new gadget, or even for your car? Me neither–they’re verbose, confusing, and use jargon the ...

No writer has dominated American journalism less for what he wrote than for how he wrote it than Ernest Hemingway. Mentored by the Kansas City Star to embrace the "simple declarative sentence," ...