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Hemingway Scholars

• To all my colleagues, here and abroad, let me recommend the work Oak Parkers are doing for Hemingway studies. Of all the activities associated with Ernest's name, the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is the only grass roots, non-profit effort whose goal is educational and whose standards are rigorous. By restoring his birthplace, reprinting his high-school writing, collecting and cataloging the Marcelline Hemingway Sanford manuscripts and letters, establishing the museum, and through various outreach programs, they have made easier the work of now and future scholars. Those of us who have made our professional lives out of the Hemingway texts have a particular debt to repay. I can think of no better way than supporting the Oak Park effort. I am sending in my check, and I hope that you will each help out as you are able.
• Michael Reynolds
  author of a four-volume biography of Hemingway
• All of us who study the life and works of Ernest Hemingway, and who have an interest in his legacy, are fortunate to have the preservation of his childhood home under the supervision of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. These tireless and dedicated volunteers have established a museum devoted to Hemingway, and they are restoring the Ernest Hall house, where Hemingway was born, and both have been done with taste, restraint, and informed good judgment. The Oak Park group has earned the admiration and gratitude of everyone interested in Hemingway, and they deserve our encouragement and support on all levels, intellectual, personal, financial.
• James Nagel
  author of Hemingway in Love and War
• In 1990 Joe David Halderman made Hemingway a verb in his novel, The Hemingway Hoax, when he had a character claim that his wife knew Papa as well as anyone who hemingwayed for a living. As both an Oak Parker, and one who for the past five years has been hemingwaying for a living, I urge my counterparts the world over to contribute to the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. It is from here that Ernest Hemingway -- the young man and future writer -- began his work. Now, like all great artists, he has become his work; and the preservation and education going on here is a benefice we have shared as current scholars. It is also a trust we must help maintain for those who come after us. Many of you were here for the 1993 Conference, and more will be here in 1999 for the Centenary. Support the work of the Hemingway Foundation that welcomes you. My check and the pledge of identical checks for the next four years backs this exhortation.
• Rose Marie Burwell
  author of Ernest Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels
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