Picturing Hemingway Exhibit at Milner Library June 8 - Sept. 30

The traveling exhibit, Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time, will be on display at Illinois State University's Milner Library from June 8 to Sept. 30.  The exhibit and associated presentations are free and open to the public.

The exhibit is organized by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. in collaboration with the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, Illinois.  The exhibit's photographs depict a timeline of Hemingway's life in a narrative format. 

An opening reception for the exhibit will be held on Thursday, June 18 at 2 p.m. on the sixth floor of Milner Library.   Hilary Justice, associate professor of English at Illinois State, will present "Ernest Hemingway: The Alchemy of a Writer." 

Justice is editor of The Hemingway Letters Project, a cooperative undertaking of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation/Society and The Hemingway Foreign Rights Trust. The project will result in the publication of a projected twelve volumes of Hemingway's estimated 7,000 to 8,000 pieces of correspondence.  Justice also serves as a scholar-consultant to many Hollywood projects focusing on Hemingway.

"Hemingway's Personal Farewell to Arms" will be the topic of a presentation by author Susan Beegel on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 6:30 p.m. on the sixth floor of Milner Library. 

Beegel edits The Hemingway Review, a scholarly journal published by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on Hemingway and other writers.  Her presentation will address how Hemingway altered autobiographical materials to create one of his most compelling fictions.

For additional information on Picturing Hemingway contact literature librarian Jean MacDonald at (309) 438-3516 or jmacdon@ilstu.edu