Hemingway house cats supplied the grace, staff the courage (See also Hurricane Irma: first reports on animals in the Caribbean islands.) KEY WEST, TAVERNIER––Having famously remarked that “Courage is grace under pressure,” and almost as famously doted upon the six-toed cat Snowflake, also called Snowball, who roamed his Key West home during his years there, […]
A pro-animal perspective in defense of Ernest Hemingway
by Merritt Clifton A strong literary argument might be made that while Ernest Hemingway justly regarded Mark Twain as the most influential American author before Hemingway’s own time, Hemingway himself was the most influential American author of the 20th century, chiefly for popularizing the terse writing style that has dominated men’s writing done for […]