Virtually everyone has heard of Ernest Hemingway. But you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who knows of Ellen N. La Motte. People should. She is the extraordinary World War I nurse who wrote like ...

The recent PBS series on the life of Ernest Hemingway displayed the writing-style rules of the Kansas City Star newspaper, from when Hemingway worked there in 1917 and 1918. He hadn't yet turned 20; ...

THE other day I heard a solemnly uninteresting young writer say that when he wrote fiction, he never thought of real people and situations; novelists who “used” real people lacked the imagination of ...

I’ve been an Ernest Hemingway aficionado since my teens, so I was pleased to read the Library of America’s collection of the late, great writer’s stories, “Hemingway: A Farewell To Arms & Other ...