Hemingway’s Lost Suitcase
How to Start Again From Zero
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5 min readAug 7, 2015
Starting anything is hard. Losing everything and starting over is even harder.
In December 1922, a young Ernest Hemingway was in Switzerland as a newspaper correspondent for the Lausanne Peace Conference. On the way he met journalist and editor of The American Magazine Lincoln Steffens, who was impressed with Hemingway’s writing and asked to see…