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Lorian Hemingway (born December 15, 1951) is an American author and freelance journalist. Her books include the memoir Walk on Water, the novel Walking Into the River, and the non-fiction book A World Turned Over, about the devastation of her hometown of South Jackson, Mississippi, by the Candlestick Park Tornado in 1966.
In 1981 Lorian Hemingway could not have dreamed that the small Key West short story competition she judged would one day become one of America’s most prestigious literary contests. That first year the contest drew 75 entries from Key West and a few other cities in Florida.
Lorian Hemingway is the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway. She was born on December 15, 1951 in Jackson, Mississippi. Her childhood years were spent in several southern states – Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, and Arkansas. The Florida Keys are the setting for her memoir, Walk on Water .
Lorian Hemingway, a granddaughter of Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway, is the author of three critically acclaimed books: Walking into the River, Walk on Water, and A World Turned Over. Ms. Hemingway is the competition’s final judge.
8 de jul. de 2003 · The fury and destruction ended in seconds, but in those moments the tornado had ripped through the heart of a community, changing lives forever. In A World Turned Over, Lorian Hemingway returns to the Jackson she knew as a child and tells the story of the Candlestick Tornado, as it came to be known.
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Granddaughter of the troubled literary icon Ernest Hemingway, Lorian wrote her first published piece when she was in third grade. She originally intended to become a doctor, but instead found herself filling her pre-med notebooks with stories and poems.
7 de may. de 1998 · By turns moving, raw, wry, and hilarious, Walk on Water is a stirring memoir by a woman who, like her quarry, is full of fight and life. Genres Nonfiction Biography. 256 pages, Hardcover. First published May 7, 1998. Book details & editions.
