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Hemingway’s Personal Farewell to Arms

Dr. Susan Beegel, Editor, The Hemingway Review
Thursday, May 10, 2007, 11:45 am – 1:15 pm
Owyhee Plaza Hotel, 1109 W. Main St., Boise

Dr. Susan Beegel Editor, The Hemingway Review

Again this year, The Cabin (formerly the Log Cabin Literary Center) and the National Endowment for the Arts are sponsoring The Big Read in Boise. It features one of the greatest novels in American literature, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. City Club is pleased to bring to this two-month celebration Susan Beegel, internationally known Hemingway scholar and editor of The Hemingway Review. She will present an intimate look at the writer’s real-life World War I experiences in Italy—his service as a Red Cross ambulance driver, his wounding and his love affair with nurse Agnes von Kurowsky—all of which contributed to the writing of this novel.

Susan Beegel holds a PhD in English literature from Yale University. For more than a decade, she has edited the award-winning international journal, The Hemingway Review, a joint publication of the University of Idaho and The Hemingway Society. Beegel has published three books and more than 50 articles, book chapters, editions and reviews on Ernest Hemingway and other figures in American literature and history. She delivered the keynote address for the Hemingway Centennial Celebration in Oak Park, Ill., and has appeared in C-SPAN's “American Writers” series and many Hemingway documentaries.

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