The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

Hemingway’s Last Letter

Document Type

Article

Citation

Poeschla, Eric M. “Hemingway’s Last Letter.” Southwest Review 100, no. 1 (2015): 100-12.

Annotation

Reflection on Hemingway’s time spent at the Mayo Clinic for treatment of depression and alcoholism. Discusses Hemingway’s celebrity status, fascination with alcohol and death in his writings, and the last letter he wrote to a friend’s son in 1961, just prior to his suicide. Poeschla comments on the letter’s optimistic tone and stylistic echoes of “In Another Country.”

Published in

Southwest Review

Volume

100

Issue

1

Date

2015

Pages

100-112

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