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Lillian Ross on Ernest Hemingway
June 9, 2009
Lillian Ross writer, The New Yorker
Susan Morrison editor, The New Yorker

New Yorker writer Lillian Ross reflects on her famous 1950 profile of Ernest Hemingway. In celebration of the 110th anniversary of the Hemingway’s birth, Ross shares what she has learned about writing and writers throughout her career. Ross' New Yorker editor Susan Morrison joins the discussion about the Nobel prize-winning writer.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library is the world's leading repository for the manuscripts and artifacts of Ernest Hemingway, one of America's greatest writers, and the author of The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and Old Man and the Sea.

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