The Hemingway Letters Project has received a three-year, $275,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support its work in publishing volumes five through seven of "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway."
The fourth volume of 'The Letters of Ernest Hemingway' will be available from Cambridge University Press on Nov. 16.
Cambridge University Press has released the third volume of "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway (1926-1929)," part of the Hemingway Letters Project, a projected 17-volume scholarly edition containing the correspondence of “Papa” Hemingway, the iconic Nobel-prize winning American writer whose work played a major role in defining 20th-century American literature. The book is edited by Penn State Professor of English Sandra Spanier, along with Rena Sanderson and Robert W. Trogdon.
On Oct. 22, Cambridge University Press will publish Volume 2: 1923-1925 of “The Letters of Ernest Hemingway,” edited by Penn State Professor of English Sandra Spanier, Albert J. DeFazio III and Robert W. Trogdon. The eagerly awaited next installment, Volume 2 chronicles a seminal period in Hemingway’s life and career: the Paris years.
The late American novelist Ernest Hemingway has had a "tough guy" public image for many decades, but his letters are revealing a far more complex, sensitive and interesting individual. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Vol. 1 1907-1922 was published by Cambridge University Press to great critical acclaim and success, thanks to an international project led by Penn State faculty scholar Sandra Spanier. A new National Endowment for the Humanities grant of $225,000 will help support the next phase of work on his letters over three years. Spanier directs an international team of scholars in this effort, assisted by project center staff, graduate research assistants, and undergraduate interns, all at Penn State. They are responsible for gathering, transcribing, annotating and publishing the entirety of Hemingway's known surviving letters worldwide, about 85 percent of them never before published.
Linda Patterson Miller, the 2011-12 Penn State laureate and professor of English at Penn State Abington will be speaking at 7 p.m. on Jan. 19 at the Penn State Learning Center in Lewistown. Miller's presentation "Hemingway in Letters, Literature and Life" will be offered in conjunction with the Learning Center's community lecture series, "Lobby Lectures." The public is invited. To register, call 717-248-9618. Then at 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 20 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus, Miller will deliver a talk titled "Searching for the Lost Generation" as part of the Penn State Forum Speaker Series. This event is open to the public and the charge is $18 per ticket. To register and for more information go online to: http://pennstateforum.psu.edu. Miller will continue her travels and speaking engagements in the eastern part of Pennsylvania during the spring. Stay tuned for schedule updates.
ABINGTON, Pa -- Linda Patterson Miller, the 2011-12 Penn State laureate and professor of English at Penn State Abington, is sharing her thoughts and observations of her laureate experience as she journeys across the Commonwealth aiming to engage people in the beauty of the humanities; specifically early 20th-century American literature and art. "Literary Landings" is a travelogue scheduled to appear periodically during the fall 2011 and spring 2012 semesters on Penn State Live and in Penn State Newswires. "In the Chapel of Art" Miller reflects on an encounter with three Hemingway aficionados and addresses a question she is often asked: "Why Hemingway?" In video link http://bit.ly/nVOzuO see Miller as she provides some background for understanding the transformative power of Hemingway's art.
ABINGTON, Pa. -- Linda Patterson Miller, the 2011-12 Penn State laureate and professor of English at Penn State Abington, is sharing her thoughts and observations of her laureate experience as she journeys across the Commonwealth aiming to engage people in the beauty of the humanities; specifically early 20th-century American literature and art. "Literary Landings" is a travelogue scheduled to appear periodically during the fall 2011 and spring 2012 semesters on Penn State Live and in Penn State Newswires. Below and in the video link http://bit.ly/nVOzuO, Miller discusses how encounters with art can change lives, as it did for Miller when she first read Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" (1929).
Penn State Laureate Linda Patterson Miller, professor of English at Penn State Abington, will begin her journeys into western Pennsylvania, serving as a "laureate-in-residence" as she interacts with the campus communities at Penn State DuBois (Sept. 13); Penn State Erie, The Behrend College (Sept. 14); Penn State Shenango (Sept. 15); and Penn State Beaver (Sept. 16). Miller will be participating in individual classes and symposiums along with engaging larger audiences in public forums at these locations. "I invite anyone in these geographical areas to join with us for these public presentation as we variously explore the art of American diary-keeping, the lives and art of the 1920s Lost Generation, and the art of Ernest Hemingway as discovered in his letters and early prose," said Miller.
Check in with Miller's travels and follow her literary dialogue, "Literary Landings," at http://laureate.psu.edu/Linda_Miller online. Today, Miller discusses how encounters with art can change lives, as it did for Miller when she first read Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" (1929). To watch a short video of Miller as she provides some background for understanding the transformative power of Hemingway's art, go to http://bit.ly/nVOzuO online.
Newly minted Penn State Laureate Linda Patterson Miller, professor of English at Penn State Abington, officially started her laureate duties last month. She will be traveling throughout Pennsylvania talking about her professional area of expertise, America's Lost Generation of the 1920s. Her first excursion will be to the northwest region of the commonwealth, with stops at Penn State's DuBois, Erie, Shenango and Beaver campuses.
To learn more about Miller and stay up-to-date with her travels and literary talks throughout the state check out her travelogue, "Literary Landings," at http://laureate.psu.edu/Linda_Miller online. To watch a short video of Miller speaking about her journey of literary research that she aims to share with audiences this year, go to http://goo.gl/rtYpB online.
With Penn State's acquisition of intimate Hemingway letters, new aspects of the famed writer's personality come to light.
