Valerie Hemingway - Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I COULD NOT HAVE WRITTEN this book without the encouragement of friends and family. First of all, my thanks go to my agents, Dan Green and Simon Green of POM, Inc. Over a twenty-year period Dan urged me to put pen to paper. I am grateful for his persistence, patience, and guidance. I owe a special debt to my good friend Jeffrey Meyers for his careful reading of the manuscript and for his invaluable comments. I am equally fortunate that Valerie Meyers offered her expert opinion on the early chapters. Michele Zackheim gave me excellent technical advice and assistance.

For their steadfast trust in the value of this work, I would like to thank Barnaby Conrad, Michelle Flenniken, Brian Gaisford, Samuel Hazo, Lorian Hemingway, Mary ODonnell, Pamela Olyphant, Mollie Rogan, Robert Vavra, and Margaret Woods. I am also indebted to David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen.

I am grateful to Linda Wagner Martin, president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, for allowing me to quote in its entirety a letter from Ernest Hemingway. James Hill, of the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum Audiovisual Archives, was most gracious and helpful in providing photographs.

I would like to thank my editor, Nancy Miller of Ballantine Books, for her sound advice and good humor.

Finally, my gratitude goes to my four children, who have not only endured but excelled. I especially acknowledge my son Edward, who has been a constant support in this endeavor.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A native of Ireland, VALERIE HEMINGWAY moved to Spain when she was eighteen. In 1959, while working as a journalist in Madrid, she interviewed Ernest Hemingway. Two months later Hemingway hired her as his secretary, a job which took her all over Spain, to France, and to Cuba. She was a researcher at Newsweek in New York at the time of Hemingways death. Mary Hemingway invited Valerie to return to Cuba to help sort out her late husbands papers and bring them back to the United States. For the next three years, Valerie arranged and cataloged the Hemingway papers for eventual presentation to the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. She worked in publishing in New York from 1963 to 1967. In 1966, while she was publicity director of New Directions, Valerie married Dr. Gregory H. Hemingway, Ernests youngest son. They lived in Florida for two years while he pursued a medical residency and she read fiction for Publishers Weekly. Upon returning to New York in 1969, Valerie wrote a quarterly newsletter for the Guinness-Harp Corporation. In 1980 the couple moved with their family to Bozeman, Montana, where she continues to reside, enjoying a career as a freelance writer and edtior.

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