Re: hemingway
Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Sun, 06 Jun 1999 11:15:53 -0400
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 02:39:36PM +1000, Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
> Hey! I'm still getting over the news that he was gay! What a painful way to
> live your life - as a phony all the way.
Camille, where did you come across this news? I'm curious, because I've
read nearly every Hemingway biography that has been published in the
last 20 years, and have never seen this documented. There has been
plenty of speculating about why he wanted to seem so Masculine. (One
amusing note is that when he was a child, his mother-from-hell used to
dress Ernest and his sister in identical dresses; many people have
speculated that this led him to assert in later life that he was a
capital-m Man.)
But I've never read anything that asserted he was gay. I'd like to see
that documented.
--tim