Cuba Opens Hemingway Archives
Scholars can now study Hemingway’s life in Cuba – the period not well known to biographers and yet the time & place he wrote his greatest works. The Cuban Hemingway Archive includes: 2,000 documents (manuscripts and letters), 3,500 photographs, and 9,000 books (2,000 with Hemingway’s notes in the margins). This collection is made possible through a joint effort of the Cuban National Cultural Heritage Council and the U.S. Social Science Research Council.
This collection will not be available to the general public, but instead to scholars who submit written request for access. While the materials are currently only available in Finca Vigia, Cuba, they will be assessable at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston by the end of January, 2009.
