Collections of the Presidential Library : Ernest Hemingway Collection

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum collects, preserves, and makes available primary-source materials, in all formats, on the life and times of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. The Library's holdings include the papers of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Rose Kennedy, as well as close to 400 other collections: those of Kennedy family members, Kennedy administration officials and associates, and pertinent individuals, authors, and institutions. The John F. Kennedy Library also houses the Ernest Hemingway Collection and the John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collections.

Ernest Hemingway Collection

The Ernest Hemingway Collection pursuing study of Hemingway and his writing. The Hemingway Research Room's primary mission is to serve researchers, then educational groups and the public in general. The room isn't open for general interest or browsing, rather, for researchers who require the use of the Library's unique manuscript, audiovisual, and documentary holdings related to Ernest Hemingway.

While Ernest Hemingway and President Kennedy never met, President Kennedy more than once expressed his admiration for Hemingway and his work. In the opening sentence of his own Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Profiles in Courage", Kennedy cited Hemingway’s description of courage, writing that, “This is a book about the most admirable of human virtues — courage. ‘Grace under pressure,’ Ernest Hemingway defined it.” 

Who is Ernest Hemingway ?

Ernest Miller Hemingway, born in 21 July 21 1899 and died in 2 July 1961, was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. 

Hemingway produced most of his work between 1920 and 1950. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature. 
Hemingway was raised in several cities before de first World War. While this wartime, he was a ambulance driver. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home.

Between 1922 and 1945, he raised accross the world. In 1952, he went on safari to Africa where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of the rest of his life.

In 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.