Scrapbooks Chronicling Ernest Hemingway’s Childhood Made Available for First Time by JFK Library
Boston, MA– On the 114th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s birth, the
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today announced that
five scrapbooks documenting the childhood of the Nobel Prize-winning author have been made available to the public for the first time in
their entirety as digital images. Created and annotated by Hemingway’s
mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, the scrapbooks chronicle the first
eighteen years of her son’s life and include many never-before-seen
photographs, letters, drawings, homework assignments and other keepsakes
from his childhood.