In an age of endless words, Hemingway wrote with a rifleman’s precision. Here’s how. He didn’t waste ink. He stripped sentences down to their bare bones and nerves. His sentences were clean, sharp, ...

When Ernest Hemingway moved to Paris in 1921, he tacked a Michigan map up in his writing room. Michigan inspired Hemingway's stories, and his parents planted Hemingway's local roots before he was born ...