Ernest Hemingway in Toronto, Part II:  Traditional Media

Lisa Tyler

 

Publicity photo for Hemingway vs Callaghan miniseries
Publicity photo for the 2003 Canadian television miniseries

 

If you are planning to attend the Hemingway Society Conference in Toronto in July, or would just like to know more about Hemingway's Canadian connections, you might find the suggested books, articles, and television series listed below interesting.  Please remember that this list is a starting point and is not intended to be comprehensive.    

Books

Fiction

Miller, Marianne.  We Were the Bullfighters.  Dundurn Press, 2024.

 

Nonfiction

Burrill, William.  Hemingway:  The Toronto Years.  Doubleday Canada, 1994.

Callaghan, Morley.  That Summer in Paris  Memories of Tangled Friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Some Others.  Coward-McCann, Inc., 1963,

Donnell, David.  Hemingway in Toronto:  A Post-modern Tribute.  Firefly Books, 1982.

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway:  Vol. I, 1907-1922.  Ed. Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon.  Cambridge University Press, 2011. 

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway:  Vol. 2, 1923-1925.  Ed. Sandra Spanier, Albert DeFazio III, and Robert W. Trogdon.  Cambridge University Press, 2013.

White, William, ed.  Dateline:  Toronto, Hemingway’s Complete Toronto Star Dispatches, 1920-1924.  Scribners, 1985.

 

Journal Articles

Allen, Edward.  “Hemingway’s Impressions:  Learning to Voice the Classics in the Early Journalism.”  Symbiosis, vol. 26, no. 2, 2022, pp. 151-71.

Brown, Russell.  “Callaghan, Glassco, and the Canadian Lost Generation.”  Essays on Canadian Writing, vol. 51, 1993, pp. 83-112.

Deshaye, Joel.  “Theatrical and Self-Conscious Metaphor in Modern Realism:  Ernest Hemingway and Morley Callaghan Reunited.”  Journal of the Short Story in English, vol. 71, 2018, pp. 173-199.

Donaldson, Scott. “Hemingway of ‘The Star.’” College Literature, vol. 7, no.3, 1980, pp. 263-281.

Nakjavani, Erik  “On Autobiography and Multiple Personality:  The Case of Morley Callaghan Remembering Ernest Hemingway.”  North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 2, 1994, pp. 55-82.

Stoneback, H.R.  “On Bobsledding, Lugeing, Toboganning, Skis Leaned Against Alpine Walls, Frozen Carcasses, Death, Glory, and Transcendence:  Winter Sport in Hemingway’s Journalism and Fiction.”  Aethlon:  The Journal of Sport Literature, vol. 11, no. 2, 1994, pp. 117-29.

Vaughn, Elizabeth.  “ ‘Truer than Anything True’:  In Our Time and Journalism.”  Hemingway Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1992, pp. 11-18.

 

Television and Film

Hemingway vs. Callaghan [television miniseries].  CBC Television, 2003.

 

Lisa Tyler recently retired after a 32-year career as an English professor at an urban community college in Dayton, Ohio.  Her publications include the edited collection Wharton and Hemingway:  The Advent of Modernism (Louisiana State, 2019), Teaching Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (Kent State, 2008), and Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway (Greenwood, 2001).  She serves as secretary on the board of the Hemingway Society and edits the Society's Hemingway Review blog.

 

Lisa Tyler 02/22/2026

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