On 14 July 2003,
Moorich2@aol.com wrote:
: Some months ago I picked up the book HUNTING WITH HEMINGWAY
by Hilary
: Hemingway and Jeffry P. Lindsay (Riverhead Books 2000).
Hilary is the
: daughter of Ernest Hemingway's younger brother Leicester
and Jeffry is
: her husband. The book is presented in part as an evening's
backyard
: conversation with several guests as Leicester tells stories
(some
: certainly fanciful) about his brother. A participant in
these
: "conversations" is Charles Willeford, who Hilary refers to
as "Uncle
: Charlie." While the stories by Leicester openly stretch the
truth, the
: portrait of Willeford rings true.
Willeford was friends with Hemingway's brother and his
family? No-one's ever mentioned that before. Thanks for the
mention of the book--I'm going to track it down.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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