News from the Hemingway Collection

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News from the Hemingway Collection Susan Wrynn Research Grants The Ernest Hemingway Research Grants resumed in 2014. This year’s winners are Ross Tangedal, a Ph.D candidate at Kent State University; Michael Von Cannon, a Ph.D candidate at Louisiana State University, and Stephanie Gall, an undergraduate student at Wellesley College. The postmark deadline for 2015 grant applications is 1 November 2014; awards will be announced on 15 December. See details at http://www.jfklibrary.org/About-Us/Job-Volunteer-Internships/Research-Grants-and-Fellowships/Ernest-Hemingway-Research-Grants.aspx Museo Ernest Hemingway Collection With support from the Finca Vigía Foundation, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum received more than 2,500 digital images from the Finca Vigía Museum in Havana, now available to researchers at the library. These digital facsimiles were taken from the archival holdings still located in Hemingway’s Cuban home. The Archives staff has created a Finding Aid offered online at http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/MEHC.aspx On the opening of the material, Tom Putnam, Director of the Kennedy Library said “We are pleased to make available to researchers copies of these materials that provide a unique glimpse into the everyday life of Ernest Hemingway. For a literary figure who is often portrayed as larger than life, this trove of personal ephemera serves to humanize the man and to understand the writer.” PEN Hemingway Awards NoViolet Bulawayo has won the 2014 PEN HemingwayAward for a distinguished first book of fiction for her critically acclaimed We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur Books/Little Brown and Company). Bulawayo will receive a $10,000 prize from the Hemingway Foundation and PEN New England, as [End Page 182] well as a residency in the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at the University of Idaho’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. Born in Zimbabwe, Bulawayo’s semi-autobiographical novel chronicles the life of a ten-year old girl in Zimbabwe during its so-called Lost Decade and then her life as a teenager in present-day America. Bulawayo is presently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. The two Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award finalists are Mitchell S. Jackson for The Residue Years (Bloomsbury USA) and Anthony Wallace for The Old Priest (University of Pittsburgh Press). Three writers received honorable mention: Jasmine Beach-Ferrara for Damn Love (Ig Publishing), Kristopher Jansma for The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards (Viking), and Ethan Rutherford for The Peripatetic Coffin (Ecco/HarperCollins). Geraldine Brooks, author of The People of the Book, Caleb’s Crossing, and Year of Wonders, was the featured keynote speaker at the 6 April award ceremony. Australian-born, Ms. Brooks worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. Her novel, March, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. [End Page 183] Susan Wrynn John F. Kennedy Library Copyright © 2014 The Ernest Hemingway Foundation