TWA Poet: Ernest Hemingway

1899 - 1961

Today is the anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s death. He had found writing increasingly difficult after World War II, and he was also in pain from injuries he'd suffered during a safari in Africa. He had left his home in Cuba in 1960, after Fidel Castro's regime forced him out, and had settled in Ketchum, Idaho. He was increasingly anxious and depressed…