Title
The State of Things in Cuba: A Letter to Hemingway
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Reprints 1936 letter to Hemingway from journalist Richard Armstrong in response to Hemingway’s request for information on recent revolutionary activities as background for To Have and Have Not. Armstrong discusses the status of the Communist Party, reports terroristic killings, and describes the exile and death of automotive engineer Octavio Seigle. Grimes’s introduction details Hemingway’s relationship with Armstrong and his use of Armstrong’s materials in his novel.
Published in
Date
2013
Pages
75-83
COinS
Citation
Grimes, Larry and Bickford Sylvester, eds. Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban Works. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2013.