Writers’ Residences: Literature Lives Here
| June 9, 2017
5. Ernest Hemingway – Key West, Florida
If there’s one author who considerably influenced 20th-century fiction, it was Ernest Hemingway. His writing style is regarded as extremely concise and each word in his prose has a function. He traveled extensively and was an ambulance driver in the First World War.
He wrote most of his famous books while living in his house in Florida for eight years. Hemingway was given a six-toed cat by a ship’s captain and he believed it brought good luck. Nowadays, there are over 40 cats in the house which are descendants of the first one, Snow White.
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