
Title
Boxing Ernest Hemingway
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Sportswriter Paul Zimmerman recounts his youth training at George Brown’s gym in New York City during the late 1940s where he was Hemingway’s sparring partner. Zimmerman recalls the relaxed atmosphere of the gym that enabled Hemingway to check his literary status at the door.
Published in
Dr. Z: The Lost Memoirs of an Irreverent Football Writer
Date
2017
Pages
35-41
COinS
Citation
Zimmerman, Paul Lionel, Peter King, and Bailey Zimmerman. “Boxing Ernest Hemingway.” In Dr. Z: The Lost Memoirs of an Irreverent Football Writer, 35-41. Chicago: Triumph Books, 2017.