Alan wrote:
> Charles Willeford: Richard Hudson is the guy that
Hemingway stole from me,
> for his book Islands in the Stream.
> DH: He did what?
> CW: Richard Hudson was his hero, I think, but that
<book> came out
later.
> DH: Oh, it was coincidental. Or he stole that from
you?
> CW: Well, mine's first. What the hell, you know, I
got a claim.
> DH: Yeah, but I still think he's Russell Haxby. I
read those and he
seemed
> like the same guy to me.
> CW: No, he's not. He's different.
Different.
*********** Haha. Sounds like Charles was having fun. I
haven't read either of those two books, but I think Bill
Crider said he was like Lou Ford. So the Willeford and
Hemingway character are similar in name only. I liked ISLANDS
IN THE STREAM a lot, but in it Hemingway's public image
seeped into his writing. Hemingway's character was a macho
artist whose only problems seemed to be a lost wife and a
lost son (in WWII) and never enough daquiris. He put the
hurts to a German U-boat crew down on some nameless isle in
the Caribbean.
miker
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