Hemingway and Women
A Presentation by Ann Putnam,
(English Department, University of Puget Sound)
May 2, 2013 @ 7pm
King’s Books
218 St Helens Ave., Tacoma, WA 98402
Ann Putnam holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Washington. She is an internationally known Hemingway scholar who has given papers in France, Spain, and Cuba, among others. She has published essays in many collections, including Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice, Hemingway and the Natural World, and Hemingway in Context. She is completing a novel set in Cuba, called Cuban Quartermoon in which Hemingway himself makes an appearance. Her most recent publication is a memoir: Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter’s Last Goodbye.
This year for Pierce County Reads selection is the New York Times best seller and award-winning The Paris Wife, by internationally known author Paula McLain. The Paris Wife provides an intriguing account of one of the world’s greatest authors, Ernest Hemingway, seen through the eyes of his first wife, Hadley Richardson.
This event is sponsored by the University of Puget Sound and King’s Books.