• NEWS FROM THE HEMINGWAY COLLECTION MEGAN DESNOYERS The John F. Kennedy Library In December, Stephen Plotkin, long-time curator of the Hemingway Collection, was selected to become the Library's reference archivist. While Stephen regretted having to leave his work with the CoUection, this was à promotion for Stephen. We congratulate Stephen on his promotion and thank him for all his dedicated work on behalf of the Collection and on the Hemingway Centennial. We may have filled the position Stephen held by the time this edition appears, but until then I will be serving as curator of the Collection again. For those of you who do not know me, I am a senior archivist at the Library, have worked here for 31 years, and in 1987 1 became responsible for the Collection in addition to my existing duties. Gradually we were able to add staff to the department I oversee and Stephen became curator of the Collection. My telephone number is 617-929-4540. My fax number is 617-929-1271. My emaU address is megan.desnoyers@nara.gov. The Hemingway Collection lost a good friend with the passing of John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway—"Jack"—on 1 December 2000. Jack Hemingway was an enthusiastic supporter of the Hemingway Collection. He was a founder of the Library's Friends of the Hemingway Collection and one of the Trustees of the April 1999 Hemingway Centennial at the Kennedy Library. He generously donated all of the papers of his mother, Hadley Richardson Hemingway Mowrer, to the Collection. At the Hemingway Centennial, he represented his family in presenting the 1999 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. On 29 April 2001, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for the best first work of fiction was presented at the Library to Akhil Sharma for An Obedient Father (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Finalists for the Award were Moshid Hamid for Moth Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and Tom Paine the hemingway review, vol. 20, no. 2, spring 2001. Copyright © 2001 The Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Published by the University ofIdaho Press, Moscow, Idaho. 132 · THI HIMlNGWAY. REVIEW for Scar Vegas and Other Stories (Harcourt). The runner-up was Elissa Schappell for Use Me (Morrow). As he has thoughtfully done for rnany years, Patrick' Hemingway presented the Award to Sharma at an afternoon ceremony. Poet, essayist, activist, and short-story writer Grace Paley was the keynote speaker. A reception followed. The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award was created in 1976 by PEN member Mary Hemingway both to honor the memory of Ernest Hemingway and to draw attention to first books of fiction. The $7,500 annual award has become America's best known prize for a distinguished first book of fiction. Since Mary Hemingway's death in 1986, thè Ernest Hemingway Foundation has continued to fund the award from the endowment she created. Respect for the aims of the award has, over the years, drawn together a diverse group of organizations, institutions and people. The award is administered by PEN, the only worldwide organization of writers, editors, and publishers. Through the efforts of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award ceremony was permanendy moved to the John F. Kennedy Library in 1992. Since 1995, the Ucross Foundation, a residence for artists and writers located in Clearmont, Wyoming, has offered expense-paid residences to the winner, runner-up, and alternates. The ceremony and reception are sponsored by the Hemingway Foundation, the John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation, PEN New England, the Friends of the Hemingway Collection, the Boston Globe and the Ucross Foundation. ...