From Hem to Eternity: James Jones, Hemingway, Paris—Meditation & Memoir

Authors

Ernest Hemingway, James Jones, literary memoir, Paris expatriate culture, postwar American fiction, literary rivalry

A scholar and memoirist chronicles his experiences in Paris that evoke memories of Ernest Hemingway and James Jones.

H. R. Stoneback, State University of New York at New Paltz

H. R. Stoneback is Distinguished Professor of English at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he has taught since 1969. He has published, as author or editor, 30 books (roughly half literary criticism, half poetry) and some 200 articles on Hemingway and other writers. He is a widely published poet and a folksinger/singer-songwriter of some renown as well as a former Senior Fulbright Professor at Peking University and Visiting Professor at the University of Paris. Recent books include Voices of Women Singing (Codhill 2011), a volume of poetry and prose memoir, and Hemingway’s Paris: Our Paris? (New Street 2010).