Hemingway's Paris and Pamplona, Then, and Now: a Personal Memoir

Robert F. Burgess, who met Ernest Hemingway at his last Pamplona fiesta, describes that meeting and how close friends related to Hemingway there. Through recently published letters and memoirs we learn new facts about Hemingways early years in Paris and Pamplona with an intimate look at the real life characters of The Sun Also Rises. Then the author returns to Hemingways favorite haunts in Paris and Spain today in search of Papas literary legacy. Following descriptions in The Sun Also Rises, he buses and backpacks into the Spanish Pyrenees, where he uncovers evidence that the Nobel Prize winning Hemingway wrote more fact than fiction into his novels. These facts and those individuals who are carrying on his legacy reveal why Hemingway will always be with us.