Title
Hemingway’s Hurricane: The Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935
Document Type
Book
Annotation
Thorough account of the hurricane that struck Key West, killing over six hundred World War I veterans assigned there to build a highway for tourism. Briefly recounts Hemingway’s involvement, using the Pilar to search the Upper Keys for survivors and expressing his outrage regarding the governmental negligence through his essay, “Who murdered the Vets?”. Sources include contemporary magazine and newspaper articles, interviews, and survivor depositions.
Date
2006
COinS
Citation
Scott, Phil. Hemingway’s Hurricane: The Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935. Camden, ME: McGraw-Hill, 2006.