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News from the Hemingway Collection

2002; Volume: 21; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/hem.2002.0027

1548-4815

James M. Roth,

American Literature and Culture

- NEWS FROM THE HEMINGWAY COLLECTION JAMES M. ROTH TheJohn F. Kennedy Library the Hemingway collection mourns the loss of Gregory Hemingway and Gregorio Fuentes. Sadly, Gregory "Gigi" Hemingway passed away on ? October 2001, at the age of sixty-nine. A former doctor, Gregory published the best-selling book about his father, Papa: A Personal Memoir, in 1976. Employed by Hemingway as captain of the Pilar, Gregorio Fuentes was the basis for the character of Antonio in Islands in the Stream, and proclaimed himself the fisherman who inspired Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. Fuentes died in Cojimar, Cuba, on 13 January 2002, at the age of one hundred and four. Gregory Hemingway and Gregorio Fuentes in Cojimar, Cuba. Courtesy ofLinda Patterson Miller. thl HLMiNLiWAY RUViLW. vol. 2i. no. 2. spring 2002. Copyright © 2002 The Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Published by the University of Idaho Press, Moscow, Idaho. NEWS FROM THE HEMINGWAY COLLECTION · ¡69 Hemingway Foundation/PENAward On April 7, 2002, the' Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for the best first work of fiction was presented to Justin Cronin for Mary and O'Neil (The Dial Press). Finalists for the award were Peter Orner for Esther Stories (Houghton Mifflin Company) and Manil Suri for The Death of Vishnu (W.W. Norton & Company). Runners-up were Carolyn Cooke for The Bostons (Houghton Mifflin Company) and Micheline Aharonian Marcom for Three Apples Fell From Heaven (Riverhead Books). Patrick Hemingway presented the award to Cronin at an afternoon ceremony at the Library. A highlight of the ceremony was keynote speaker Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, China Men, Hawaii One Summer, and Tripmaster Monkey: His'Fake Book. The Hemingway Research Room was open for tours and a reception followed the ceremony. The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award was created in 1976 by PEN member Mary Hemingway both to honor the memory of Ernest Hemingway and to draw attention to first books of fiction. Since Mary Hemingway 's death in 1986, the Ernest Hemingway Foundation has continued to fund the award from the endowment she created. Administered by PEN, the only worldwide organization of writers, editors, and publishers, the award ceremony was permanently moved to the John F. Kennedy Library through the efforts of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in 1992. Since 1995, the Ucross Foundation, a residence for artists and writers located in Clearmont , Wyoming, has offered expense-paid residences to the winner, runners -up, and alternates. The Hemingway Foundation, the John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation, PEN New England, the Friends of the Hemingway Collection, the Boston Globe and the Ucross Foundation sponsor the ceremony and reception. Openings and Recent Acquisitions The Papers of Jane Mason have been processed and are open for research. Jane Mason and her husband, George Grant Mason, an executive with Pan American Airways, became friends with Ernest and Pauline Hemingway and introduced the Hemingways to Cuban society. The papers consist of correspondence between Jane Mason and the Hemingways in the form of letters and telegrams from their residences in New York, Florida, Cuba, and from their travels, mainly from 1932 to 1938. The ¡70 ¦ THE HEMINGWAY REVIEW papers also contain correspondence between Jane Mason and mutual friends of the Hemingways, other associates, and family members. Included in the collection is a snakeskin-covered scrapbook containing newspaper clippings of Jane Mason's social life, 1926-1936. Other items include newspaper clippings, poems and writings, invitations, photographs and other miscellaneous items. A new acquisition has come to the Library: the original typescript draft of Islands in the Stream, Miami section. This manuscript is the same as number 102 listed in the catalog and described as a "typescript of manuscript , Miami section," and number i02.b listed in the catalog. However, this original typescript has corrections in pencil not included on 102 or i02.b. Published in TTie Complete Short Stories ofErnest Hemingway (Scribners 1987), as "The Strange Country," the manuscript is divided into four chapters and contains 130 pages. It is closed pending processing. To obtain information about the holdings of the Ernest Hemingway Collection and related collections, researchers are encouraged to contact me at 617-929-1229 and also to consult the Catalog ofthe...