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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.
- Fiction and non-fiction
- Walking into the River (1992) Walk on Water, A World Turned Over
- Conch Republic Prize for Literature
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.
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.
Walk on Water: A Memoir. From catfishing as a young girl in the red clay waters of Mississippi, to deep-sea fishing in the Florida Keys with her grandfather's younger brother, Leicester, Lorian...
20 de oct. de 2002 · By Lorian Hemingway. 244 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $23. LORIAN HEMINGWAY grew up with a wariness toward the weather -- an attitude that was extreme even in Mississippi, where most...
