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Hemingway, after the hurricane

  • Written by Verna Kale, Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Associate Research Professor of English, Penn State
imageRescue workers search debris for victims of the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, a Category 5 storm that devastated parts of the Florida Keys.Bettman/Getty Images

The 2024 hurricane season has been especially disastrous, and the casualties and widespread damage from flooding and high winds in towns like Cedar Key, Florida, call to mind another historic...

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