James Plath teaches American literature, journalism, film, and creative writing at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is president of The John Updike Society and a Hemingway scholar who ran with the bulls in Pamplona at his first academic conference. By invitation he lectured at the Museo Ernest Hemingway in Cuba and served as director of The Hemingway Days Writer”s Workshop & Conference in Key West for 10 years. He also has a life. The father of six and grandfather of six, he enjoys spending time with family, travel, gardening, cooking, wine, fishing, (finishing) home projects, and cheering on the Chicago Bears, Blackhawks, Cubs, and Bulls.
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Kirk Curnutt & James Plath: 100 Greatest Literary Characters
From Captain Ahab to Yuri Zhivago, discover the most remarkable characters in fiction. Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter, Hester Prynne . . . these are just a handful of remarkable charac …
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James Plath: John Updike’s Pennsylvania Interviews
Updike remains both a critical and popular success; however, because Updike asked that his personal letters not be published the only way that Updike scholars and fans can read more of the author’s c …
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Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway
When Ernest Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, presenters called him ’one of this epoch’s great molders of style, ” praising his vivid dialogue and journalistic eye for ’robust detail …
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Miriam B. Mandel: Hemingway and Africa
New scholarly essays providing a multifaceted approach to the role of Africa in Hemingway’s life and work. Hemingway’s two extended African safaris, the first in the 1930s and the second in the 1950s …
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Miriam B. Mandel: Hemingway and Africa
Hemingway’s two extended African safaris, the first in the 1930s and the second in the 1950s, gave rise to two of his best-known stories (’The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ and ’The Short Happy Life of Franc …
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