Hemingway's 112th Birthday Anniversary - Oak Park festival 2011

from www.oakpark.com/ Facebook page on July 2011 events:

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The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park will celebrate what would have been Hemingway's 112th birthday (Friday July 22) with a talk by Kansas City Star journalist and editor Steve Paul.  Paul will speak on Hemingway's earliest journalism experiences, many of which played a role in his later fiction. The talk will include reading of his published and unpublished journalism.  Paul has been a staff writer and editor at the Kansas City Star since 1975. Currently senior writer and arts editor, he manages staff and freelance critics and writes about books, music, architecture, the arts, the city and restaurants.
In 1999, the year of the Hemingway centennial, he edited a special commemorative section at The Star, which was Hemingway's first employer. That began Paul's immersion into the Hemingway world. His conference papers have been published in The Hemingway Review, in Key West Hemingway (University of Florida Press) and in two forthcoming books. In 2003 he gave a conference paper at a Hemingway Colloquium in Havana, Cuba.  He was site director of the 13th Biennial International Ernest Hemingway Society Conference in Kansas City in 2008 and is co-editor of War + Ink, a collection of essays from that conference, which will soon be published by Kent State University Press. He serves as the Hemingway Foundation's liaison to the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction, administered by New England PEN and celebrated annually at the JFK Library and Museum. A native of Boston, he is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
The reception will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by the Birthday Lecture at 8 p.m. at the Hemingway Museum, 200 N. Oak Park Ave. Admission is $15/$10 for EHFOP members, and tickets may be purchased at the door. Advance reservations are not required.