Hemingway & The Magazines
Archived Online Exhibit
Archived October 13, 2013
An exhibition from
The Speiser and Easterling-Hallman Foundation
Collection of Ernest Hemingway
by John B. Weaver
Table of Contents
Archived Online Exhibit 1
1910’s-1920’s 2
1910’s-1920’s
1 1910's - 1920's
TabulaTabula, 22: 1 (1916)
Some of Hemingway’s earliest writings appeared inTabula, the literary magazine of Hemingway’s high school in Oak Park, Illinois. Three short stories and four poems were printed between 1916-17. The issue displayed here contains the short story “Sepi Jingan”.
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The Double Dealer3:18 (June 1922)The American literary journalThe Double Dealer(1921-26) was the first professional magazine to publish a Hemingway short story, “A Divine Gesture,” which appears in the May, 1922 issue (displayed here at left).The Double Dealeris also known for early appearances of writings by Hart Crane and Thornton Wilder.
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Little Review Exiles' Number.9:3 (Spring 1923)
The avant-garde literary magazine,The Little Review(1914-29), was published out of New York when it printed the Hemingway vignette “In Our Time” (see issue displayed at left). The vignette was later reprinted with minor editions in Hemingway’s second book,in our time(1924).The Little Reviewpublished five other vignettes, two short stories, and two poems by Hemingway, as well as works by Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot.
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The Transatlantic ReviewVol. 2:6 Dec. 1924In 1924 and 1925 Hemingway published three short stories in the Paris-based magazine,transatlantic review, edited by Ford Madox Ford. The final issue of the magazine (pictured at left) printed “Cross Country Snow.” It was one of a few early Hemingway stories turned down upon their initial submission (in this case byHarper’s Magazinein November, 1924).
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This QuarterYol. 1:2
Autumn/Winter 1925-26
Three of Hemingway’s short stories were published between 1925 and 1931 inThis Quarter, another Paris-based literary magazine. Seen at right is the issue containing “The Undefeated.” This tale of bull-fighting had been earlier rejected byThe Saturday Evening Postin early 1925. It was adapted into a screenplay in 1956.
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Scribner'sVol. 85 May 1929In addition to publishing almost all of his books under the Scribner’s label, Hemingway published seven short stories inScribner'sMagazine between 1927-30, (e.g., “The Killers” and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”). Most famous is the serialized appearance ofA Farewell to Armsin six issues ofScribner'sbetween May and October, 1929. The initial May installment (pictured at left) precipitated a barring of the June and July issues from Boston newsstands. The first edition ofA Farewell to Armswas published in September, 1929 – a month before the final magazine installment. Movie adaptations followed in 1932 and 1958.
2 1930’s
Fortune Vol. 1:2 Mar. 1930The second issue ofFortunemagazine included a 15 page article on the economics of bullfighting in Spain, entitled “Bullfighting, Sport and Industry.” Hemingway spent the previous summer in Pamplona, where he had purchased Goya lithographs of bullfights, which are also featured in theFortunearticle.
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Cosmopolitan Vol. 96:4 April 1934“One Trip Across” was one of two contributions toCosmopolitanin the mid-1930’s. This “complete short novel” was lightly revised and became the first part of Hemingway’s novel,To Have and Have Not(1937).
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Esquire Vol 9:2 Feb. 1939Six of Hemingway’s short stories and 26 articles appear inEsquireduring the 1930’s, beginning with the magazine’s first issue in Autumn 1933. A number of the short stories reappear in Hemingway’s later books. A revised version of “The Tradesman’s Return” (Esquire, February 1936) forms Part Two ofTo Have and Have Not(1937). The basic storyline ofThe Old Man and the Sea(1952)is present in “On the Bluewater” (Esquire, April 1936). Hemingway’s final submission toEsquire– “Night Before Battle” (pictured at left) – is incorporated as the third of the “stories” inThe Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish War(1969).
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New Masses Vol. 16:12Sepember 17, 1935
Hemingway wrote four articles for the left-wing journalNew Massesbeginning in 1935 and ending in 1939. Other well-known contributors to the journal included Max Eastman, John Dos Passos,and Carl Sandburg.
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The New RepublicVol. 90
May 5, 1937
As a news correspondent in Spain during the Spanish Civil War (1937-38) Hemingway sent 28 wire dispatches. These were distributed to major American newspapers, including the New York Times and Kansas City Star. Many of the reports were compiled and reprinted in four issues of theNew Republic(the first is pictured at right..
KenVol 1:1
April 7, 1938
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In 1937 Hemingway published a short story, “Old Man at the Bridge,” and 13 articles in the leftist magazineKen. The articles consist of news reports on the situation in Spain and events in broader Europe leading up to WWII.
3 1940's
PMJune 10, 1941
In early 1941, Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn travel to China, reporting on the Sino-Japanese War. The short-lived New York tabloid,PM, published seven of Hemingway’s news dispatches from China (June 10 - June 18, 1941).
Collier'sVol 114:4
July 22, 1944
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Hemingway toured the western European front of World War II in 1944 and wrote six articles forCollier'sreporting the advance of the Allies in France. His first dispatch (pictured at left) was radioed from London and covered the Normandy invasion.
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LifeVol. 26:2
January 10, 1949
A biographical essay inLifemagazine (pictured at left) by the American literary critic Malcolm Cowley was among the first of many essays on Hemingway that would appear in major American magazines in the mid-twentieth century.
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5 1950's - 1960's
Life Vol. 33:9 September 1, 1952Hemingway’s short novel,The Old Man and the Sea, was first published in the September 1, 1952 issue ofLifemagazine. At the timeLifehad a circulation of5.4 million. Fifty-thousand copies of the first book edition were released a week later. The novel garnered Hemingway the Nobel Prize in literature for 1954.
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LookVol. 18:2
January 26, 1954
Hemingway and his wife Mary departed on a proposed five month safari through East Africa in late 1953. The early weeks of the safari are recounted by Hemingway in the January 1954 issue ofLookmagazine. The safari was subsequently cut short by two plane crashes.
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LifeVol. 49:10
Sept. 5, 1960
During the summer of 1959, at the age of sixty, Hemingway returned to Spain and traveled with the bullfighting circuit. The experience results in a three-part article appearing inLifemagazine in September 1960. The first installment, “The Dangerous Summer,” is pictured at left. It was the last work by Hemingway published in his lifetime.The Dangerous Summerfinally appeared in book form in 1985.
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LookVol. 25:19
September 12, 1961
Two months after Ernest Hemingway’s death, Mary Hemingway’s memorial essay on her husband appeared inLookmagazine.
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Saturday Eve. PostVol. 239
March 12, 1966
A friend and business partner of Hemingway, A. E. Hotchner exerted an influence on both the venue and content of Hemingway’s magazine stories and articles in the 1950’s and 60’s. In the spring of 1966,Lifemagazine serialized Hotchner’s account of his relationship with Hemingway. Its dramatic description of Hemingway’s final months led Mary Hemingway to file suit in an unsuccessful effort to block publication of Hotchner’s forthcoming book,Papa Hemingway