Title
Cuba: A Portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, García Márquez, Part 1
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Examining the CIA’s influence on literary magazines during the Cold War, Whitney covers Plimpton’s challenges to interviewing the reluctant Hemingway for The Paris Review, charming the aging author through their shared interest in boxing and fishing and pandering to his ego. Speculates on if Hemingway knew he was being used as a propaganda tool to fight communism.
Published in
Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers
Date
2016
Pages
161-179
COinS
Citation
Whitney, Joel. “Cuba: A Portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, García Márquez, Part 1.” In Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers, 161-79. New York: OR Books, 2016.