
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 2, 1992                   TAG: 9203020025
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: TORONTO                                LENGTH: Medium

`LOST' HEMINGWAY ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN TORONTO STAR

Ernest Hemingway, the most famous reporter the Toronto Star ever had, re-emerged on the newspaper's pages Sunday in a batch of "lost" articles written by the budding novelist in the 1920s.

The two dozen stories - missed in previous collections of Hemingway's early work, rejected by the Star's editors at the time, written under a pen name or published without a byline - were unearthed as part of preparations for the newspaper's centennial this year.

William Burrill, a writer and editor, discovered them while researching Hemingway's years with the Star in the newspapers archives, the JFK Library in Boston, at Princeton University and in Paris.

James Brasch, a professor at McMaster University and an expert on Hemingway, said the newly discovered material sheds new light on the writer's development. In a letter to the Star, he said the stories "will have consequences far beyond the mere increase in the text."

Hemingway, the author of "The Sun Also Rises" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls," worked for the Toronto Star as a free-lancer, staff reporter and foreign correspondent from 1920 to 1923.

He went on to fame as a novelist and short-story writer before committing suicide in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961 at the age of 61.

They include nine unbylined stories and one signed with the pen name Peter Jackson. The unsigned stories were found in Hemingway's personal clippings scrapbook, the newspaper said.

There are also five stories, collected by former Star librarian William McGeary, who died in 1984. Seven stories were also written for the Star but rejected by editors, including a 1922 interview with former French Premier Georges Clemenceau.

Managing Editor John Bone, who turned down the piece, wrote to Hemingway that he was sorry to "pass up your excellent color to be found throughout the article." The story had 11 paragraphs of description about coming up Clemenceau's driveway, someone bringing in the groceries, the house and Clemenceau's study before it got down to the business of the interview.

by CNB