Hemingway’s mustache was like his prose: straightforward, spare, and bold. (via 15 of the Greatest Literary Mustaches)
Have a look at the article, it features the brave and the bold in literature - Vonnegut, Shakespeare, Flaubert, Mark Twain, Faulkner, Nietzsche, Sir Arthur Doyle, Tolstoy, Orwel, Gabriel García Márquez, and Rushdie (who was denied entrance to the famous Jaipur Lit Show recently)
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
— Ernest HemingwayBrilliance doesn’t die with the ages, it only gets better. Thank Ernest ;)
July 21 - Ernest Hemingway 1923 Passport Photograph
Born Ernest Miller Hemingway in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899, Ernest Hemingway is regarded as one of the 20th century’s most influential writers. Hemingway used this 1923 passport for his return to Europe, where he initially worked as a correspondent for the Toronto Star.
This photo is from the Hemingway collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, which contains 90 percent of existing Hemingway manuscripts as well as family scrapbooks, 10,000 photographs, and several thousand letters, making it the world’s principal center for research on Hemingway’s life and work.