by Timothy Christian | Apr 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Captain Mary Welsh Monk’s US Army identity card was issued on May 9, 1944. Standing at five feet three inches and weighing one hundred twenty pounds, Mary was likely one of the most petite captains in the army. She met Ernest seventeen days after this photo was taken....
by Timothy Christian | Apr 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ernest Hemingway was wearing a massive beard in this photo for his US Army identity card. This is how he appeared when he first met Mary. Ernest believed the beard had protected his skin against cancer from the searing sun of Cuba. Share this: Click to share on X...
by Timothy Christian | Jul 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Tim Christian interviews Carl Rollyson and Carol Sklenicka about their experiences in biiography. Here’s a link to the...
by Timothy Christian | Jul 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
Carl Rollyson is one of America’s leading biographers, having published fourteen biographies, and he has a weekly interview podcast. Carl asked me to be a guest interviewer on his podcast to interview him and Carol Sklenicka, another highly regarded...
by Timothy Christian | Feb 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
The playbill advertising the Premiere of A.E. Hotchner’s play, The Old Man and the Sea, at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, announces “A.E. Hotchner, Hemingway’s official biographer, and his son, Tim Hotchner, wrote the adaptation that runs through February...
by Timothy Christian | Jun 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was in Spain following in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife, Mary Welsh, researching a book called Hemingway’s Widow. When I got to Madrid I googled “Hemingway in Madrid” finding a story in the New York Times about the author’s visits to...
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