![]() ![]() Before that, he had only published a single book-a largely overlooked work called Ultramarine. Malcolm Lowry’s First NovelĮnglish writer Malcolm Lowry achieved literary fame with Under the Volcano, his 1947 novel about the final moments of an alcoholic British ex-ambassador in Mexico. That said, the ex-wife added, she “could tell he was heartbroken.” 2. ![]() Hemingway never does reveal “what he did” (chances are it involved drinking), but “he was very brave about it,” Hadley told a friend in the 1970s. It was true alright and I remember what I did in the night after I let myself into the flat and found it was true.” I was making good money then at journalism, and took the train for Paris. I was sure she could not have brought the carbons too and I hired someone to cover for me on my newspaper job. I told her that no matter what the dreadful thing was that had happened nothing could be that bad, and whatever it was, it was all right and not to worry. She had cried and cried and could not tell me. Hemingway described the moment he learned the bad news in his 1964 memoir, A Moveable Feast: “I had never seen anyone hurt by a thing other than death or unbearable suffering except Hadley when she told me about the things being gone. But on the way, the suitcase was stolen, and most of Hemingway’s hard work was lost to him forever. She packed Hemingway’s manuscripts into a suitcase-including an attempt at a novel he’d written about his experiences as a World War I ambulance driver-and set off for the slopes, thinking her husband could write while on holiday and share his work with an editor/journalist he had met. The last two were jeopardized by an ill-fated trip to Lausanne, Switzerland: Hemingway was there to cover an international conference, and his wife, Hadley, planned to join him from Paris to go skiing. In 1922, Ernest Hemingway was a young newspaper correspondent with big dreams, a fledgling marriage, and a prolific body of unpublished fiction. ![]() A number of valuable, important, or rare manuscripts have been swiped from authors or the individuals or institutions tasked with taking care of them. ![]()
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