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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Terrill Lankford
<lankford2000@...> wrote:
> Think Chandler read
> >Burroughs? What about Hammett?
> >
>
>
> I'm not sure about Chandler or Hammett, but I bet
Hemingway did. :)
>
I don't have my Hemingway bios handy but I recall that he did
read at least the early Edgar Rice Burroughs stories. They
were both residents of Oak Park, Illinois when Burroughs
began his writing career and Hemingway was a teenager. Young
Ernest would certainly have heard of Burroughs as he was a
local celebrity once the Tarzan stories took off in
popularity.
Years later they nearly met. Both were dining in a Honolulu
restaurant in February 1941--Burroughs with his much younger
second wife Florence and Hemingway with his third wife Martha
Gellhorn. To tie the thread together, Gellhorn and Hemingway
had met behind the Loyalist lines in Spain.
Florence Burroughs tried to prod her husband into going over
to the Hemingway table and introducing himself. But it wasn't
to be. Florence had pretended to swoon when she spotted
Hemingway, a joke that irritated her older husband, and her
prodding on the introduction made him angry that she would be
so starstruck. The marriage had about run its course and this
was just one milestone on the way to divorce.
Richard Moore
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