A Moveable Feast
Published posthumously, Hemingway wrote A Moveable Feast after a 1956 stay at the Ritz Hotel in Paris. While there, staff reminded him that he’d left a steamer trunk (made for him by Louis Vuitton, no less) in the hotel’s basement in 1930. And before you ask, no, it wasn’t the suitcase first wife Hadley had misplaced in 1922.
When he opened the trunk, he rediscovered personal letters, menus, outdoor gear, and two stacks of notebooks that became the basis for the memoir of his youth in Paris’s café culture and his years as a struggling expat journalist and writer during the 1920s.
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