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SUMMARY:Ernest Hemingway’s Best Friend: Introducing General Buck Lanham
DESCRIPTION:Writers-in-Residence at the Hemingway House\, Greer Rising and 
 Eileen Martin will discuss private letters from U.S. Army General Buck 
 Lanham to Greer’s family\, and what they tell us about Ernest Hemingway 
 and his art.\n\nLanham and Hemingway sealed their friendship on World War 
 II battlefields and remained  friends until Hemingway’s death in 1961. 
 The personal collection illuminates Lanham’s life and helps decipher 
 coded references that he and Hemingway shared. The Lanhams and the Risings 
 corresponded for much of the 20th century\, and Hemingway and Lanham wrote 
 each other at least twice a month for 17 years - hundreds of letters. The 
 presentation will focus on Hemingway and Lanham as intellectual equals\, 
 with themes of love\, war and literature underpinning their friendship. 
 Lanham’s influence on Hemingway’s writing is stronger than previously 
 known: the writer modeled the protagonist in his novel Across the River and 
 Into the Trees after Lanham’s life\, and borrowed from Lanham’s 
 volatile marriage for his novel The Garden of Eden\, published in 1986. Two 
 of Hemingway’s posthumously-published short stories mention Buck Lanham 
 and relate battlefield anecdotes from time with Lanham’s unit.\n\nGreer 
 and Eileen also discovered an unpublished Hemingway war poem\, written when 
 the two men were together\, and they will share the poem and what it 
 reveals about Hemingway’s craft. Accidental Hemingway scholars\, Eileen 
 and Greer will talk about how they took on this daunting project and the 
 swell friends they’ve met along the way.\n\nThis program will be 
 livestreamed and available to watch later. Click here to watch 
 online.\n\nPhoto: Ernest Hemingway\, General Buck Lanham and Cuban friends 
 during Lanham’s 1945 visit to the island. Courtesy of Princeton 
 University Library.
LOCATION:John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall\, The Community Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Martha Williams":MAILTO:mwilliams@comlib.org
CATEGORIES:Hemingway, Lectures & Conversations
CONTACT;CN="Martha Williams":MAILTO:mwilliams@comlib.org
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URL:https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/13119700
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