Valerie Hemingway takes readers to “Hemingway’s Cuba” in August’s Smithsonian Magazine and in a "web only” article she “talks about pirated novels and Papa’s living legend.”
“A norther was raging over havana, bending and twisting the royal palm fronds against a threatening gray sky. My taxi splashed through the puddles along the Malecón, the majestic coastal road that circles half the city, as fierce waves cascaded over the sea wall and sprayed the footpath and street. Nine miles outside the city I arrived at what I had come to see: Finca Vigía, or Lookout Farm, where Ernest Hemingway had made his home from 1939 to 1960, and where he had written seven books, including The Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast and Islands in the Stream.” – from “Hemingway’s Cuba, Cuba’s Hemingway,” by Valerie Hemingway, Smithsonian Magazine