Title
Concoctions: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn"
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Debunks the popular anecdote crediting Hemingway with authoring the six-word baby shoes story. O’Toole traces versions of the tale back to 1910 and attributes the Hemingway connection to John De Groot’s play, Papa (1989).
Published in
Hemingway Didn’t Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations
Date
2017
Pages
183-191
COinS
Citation
O’Toole, Garson. “Concoctions: ‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn.’” In Hemingway Didn’t Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations, 183-91. New York: Little A, 2017.