Finding Hemingway’s Havana
The words of Nelson Albuquerqe, Professor of Literature at Havana University and my guide for the day, as we pull up in front of Ernest Hemingway’s house, now a museum, in the hills above Havana. It tells a story of his life from wall to wall and is exactly as I’d hoped, down to the very last detail. Even the bathroom wall is scrawled with the dates and weights Hemingway would record during his bouts of illness.
I’m sitting in a turquoise blue 1965 Buick 8 convertible, the very type of car the Nobel Prize-winning author drove during the 20 years he lived here. As for many writers, Hemingway is a hero of mine and the story of his life has fascinated me ever since I read his masterpiece, The Old Man and the Sea, back in school.
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