Ernest Hemingway — The Farm

Steve Newman Writer
2 min readMay 6, 2021

A Painting by Joan Miró

The Farm. Image: wikiart / National Gallery Washington DC

The American writer, Jon Dos Passos, used to enjoy calling in at the Hemingway apartment above the sawmill in Paris in the early 1920s, chatting, and often helping to give their youngster ‘Bumby’ (John Hemingway) his evening bath, and read him bedtime stories. He much preferred to be with the Hemingways, in their small cold apartment that smelled of wood chippings and other peoples cooking…

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