Isn’t that the reason for us to bring our best to this moment? — Abraham Verghese, on how death drove everything in Hemingway’s writing Ernest Hemingway, shirtless, at the Finca Vigia ...

Lyssa Goldberg, Contributor Literary icon and journalist Ernest Hemingway is one of Key West's best-known and well-loved "freshwater Conchs" (a resident who was not born on the island).