Hemingway Festival
September 28 - October 1, 2006
Ketchum, Idaho
HEMINGWAY IN IDAHO
Ernest Hemingway first came to Sun Valley, Idaho, as a guest of the newly-formed Sun Valley Company in 1939. That first year he and Martha Gellhorn stayed in room 206 at the Sun Valley Lodge, nicknaming it "The Glamour Room". It was in this room that Hemingway finished up For Whom the Bell Tolls which was released to wide-acclaim the following year. He also established some of the lifelong friendships that would continue to draw him back to the area for 25 years. One of these friends was Lloyd Arnold, who was the staff photographer for the Sun Valley company. Arnold chronicles Hemingway's adventures in Idaho in his book High on the Wild With Hemingway, published in 1968 and full of Arnold's photographs of Hemingway and friends.
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High on the Wild With Hemingway
by Lloyd Arnold
$150.00
Boise, ID: Caxton Press (1968).
A lavishly illustrated chronicle of hunting and fishing in Idaho with Ernest Hemingway and friends. An intimate portrayal of the man in his private moments.
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Lloyd Arnold's wife Tillie was also a great Hemingway friend of the time. She tells the story in her book, The Idaho Hemingway, of meeting Hemingway one morning as he sat with a beer and a plate of marinated herring. "I burst out laughing and said, 'Mr. Hemingway, is that breakfast?'" His reply?
'Yes, daughter. Have some. It's good for the kidneys.'
The Idaho Hemingway
by Tillie Arnold
$24.95
Besides being famously attractive, Tillie Arnold was perhaps the single person who knew Hemingway best in Idaho. In this 1999 she seeks to correct certain biogrpahical material, and to add something new.
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For twenty-five years Ernest Hemingway enjoyed the low profile outdoor lifestyle the Sun Valley area offered. As his son Jack put it, "the warmth of the welcome and the coterie of kindred spirits" kept bringing him back. He and Mary, his third wife, finally bought a house here in 1959. As his health and his ability to write started to decline, he began to battle with bouts of depression. In early July 1961, Ernest Hemingway died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Ketchum home. He is buried in the Ketchum cemetery, next to his wife Mary, and among many close friends and admirers.
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