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Our auction closed promptly at 9:00 pm PST on March 8, 2012. We can no longer accept bids for this auction. Please return in December to participate in our next auction.Lot 59. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). American novelist and author of such American classics as A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. His terse, journalistic style influenced a generation of writers. He committed suicide in his home in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961. Other members of Hemingway’s immediate family also committed suicide, including his father, a brother, a sister and later his granddaughter Margaux Hemingway.
4.5x3 album sheet signed in brown fountain pen ink, "To Bob from his friend. Ernest Hemingway."
Proenance: Obtained in person around 1947 by collector Bob Yeager. Slight browning along edges of paper.
MB. $400. Est. $1200