Hemingway Festival
September 28 - October 1, 2006
Ketchum, Idaho
• Susan Beegel •
Susan F. Beegel holds a Ph.D. from Yale University. An adjunct associate professor of English at the University of Idaho, she is editor of The Hemingway Review, an academic journal about the life and work of Ernest Hemingway celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. Beegel has published two books on Hemingway and another on John Steinbeck, as well as more than 70 articles on aspects of American literature and history. She serves on the board of the Hemingway Society, an organization bringing together hundreds of Hemingway scholars and enthusiasts from around the world.
• Maria Cooper •
Maria Cooper is a Vice President and Producer at MODA Entertainment. Maria is the daughter of Academy Award winning actor Gary Cooper, and is a renowned painter and photographer. Her work has been shown at numerous galleries worldwide. Ms. Cooper has written Gary Cooper Off Camera: A Daughter Remembers, a revealing look at her father through photographs and personal memories. She also worked on an interview show entitled ICONS which she is co-hosting with childhood friend Pia Lindstrom, Ingrid Bergman’s daughter, as well as several documentaries. She will present her film Cooper and Hemingway: A True Gen at this year's festival.
• Valerie Hemingway •
Valerie Hemingway, a native of Dublin, Ireland, was a working journalist in Madrid when she interviewed Ernest Hemingway in 1959. Soon after, she became his personal secretary, working with him in Spain, France, and Cuba from 1959 through 1960. After the author's death, Valerie, employed by the Hemingway estate, sorted and organized the papers, letters, and manuscripts Hemingway accumulated during his lifetime. She was married to Hemingway's son, Gregory, with whom she had four children, in addition to his four from previous marriages, from 1966-1987. A freelance writer and editor, Valerie's articles have appeared in The New York Times, Ski Magazine, Saturday Review, Outdoor Photographer, The World and I, Martello (Dublin) and VSD (Paris). She also authored Running With the Bulls: My Years With the Hemingways that paints an intimate portrait of a legendary family.
• John Mulholland •
Mr. Mulholland is the writer/director of Cooper and Hemingway: A True Gen , a documentary on the 20 year friendship between Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway. He is also the writer/director of the documentary on SHANE. Mr. Mulholland wrote and directed Inside High Noon , about the dramatic events behind the making of High Noon . He is currently writing, for Heeltap Entertainment, the screenplay for Hemingway, a feature film based on the life of Ernest Hemingway. Mulholland lives with his family in New York City.
• Yiyun Li •
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. She has an MFA from Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, Prospect, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and California Book Award for first fiction. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons, and teaches in the MFA program at Mills College.
• Chris Millspaugh •
Chris Millspaugh has worked extensively as a writer for numerous newspapers and magazines, published two weekly newspapers, and was editor of the Sun Valley Magazine from 1977-1979. In addition he has written three plays, been a musical performer, and actor and producer of hundreds of comedy reviews. His book, The Way I See It, Vol. I, a collection of short stories, was published in 1982. Currently he is Regional History Librarian for the The Community Library in Ketchum, a writer for The Idaho Mountain Express, and a radio host for KYZK 107.5 FM. His book It's in the Blood: the Story of the Kilpatrick Brothers, is his first foray into the historical biography field. He has five grown children and lives in Sun Valley.
There will be a general registration fee of $20.00 to attend all of the lectures, films and tours. Dinners and gun club events will have additional charges. Pre-registration will be available on-line shortly.
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