joining me live from the ernest hemingway home in key west is hemingway scholar susan beagle., if one wants to study this period of history, why would you turn to ernest hemingway. >> in a lot of ways ernest hemingway almost is the first half of the american 20th century. he's born in 1899 just as the new century is about to begin. he's of age to come under fire in world war i to experience the growth of american literary. and as well as being a wonderful writer of fiction and he's also a journalist and he's traveling the world at the greco turkish war. >> how did he gets here to key west? >> he arrived here in the year 1928. he was returning from paris with his second wife pauline pfeiffer. she was pregnant with their first child, seven months pregnant, and the idea was to -- they actually took an ocean liner from the port la rochelle to cuba and they were going to pick up a car here. pauline's rich uncle gus was going to give them a model coupe that she could drive in arkansas and the car wasn't ready when they got here so the ford dealership gave them a little apartment. an

hemingway home. you can see here some of his pieces. ernest was not exactly a furniture guy but he certainly did enjoy the finer things in life. pauline hemingway collect a lot of things and had them send to key west. one of the things you see here is indicative of the life that they lead. >> you can identify with ernest hemingway. he came from a cold northern climate and found a home here. where are you from? >> new york. >> what can you tell people about the key west atmosphere that would attract you and someone like ernest hemingway? >> the climate can't be beat. it is perfect all the time. and earnest in joined the fact that in key west he was an anonymous person. for the folks in key west, to read any of his books they like tim for the kind of person he was. gregarious among the locals. there's a story that ernest told senator max perkins that sums up his sense of humor and why he liked key west. he said the population of 26,000 was now about 10 and something written on the men's room wall in the train station. somebody had written a dero

why in the context of the 1920's and 30's is it worth whilewo looking at the life and work of ernest hemingway? ernest >> i'll look at his contribution to american literature overall.u i agree with john. the most important writer large the for his contribution tois style. c keychains the way americans right forever. t he' i think he is probably the best short story writer and the english-language. we have talked a lot about his c models and contribution to theot short story which is simplyhi he remarkable. i .. very special for projecting american lit you are to really around the world. >> before you answer, i wanted to let people hear about the course you are teaching because i would love to take it. i don't think i can go back in time to be with your students, but tell our audience about it. >> i teach at the women yams maratime museum in connecticut. i teach in the context of the literature of the sea. my students have an opportunity to read his work after for my students have an opportunity to read his book and after doing things like going in at schooner from key west to cuba. they have a

. >> before our next call we would like to you listen to ernest hemingway's voice. this is a little clip of him talking about the many places where he's written in his career. let's listen. >> beside the fifth column, i wrote the killers, today is friday, and indians, part of the sun also rises and the first third to have and to have not in matry. it was always a good place for working. so was paris and so were key

may have also helped to eliminate a renowned american writer friend and close collaborator of ernest hemingway hotchner wrote in the new york times july first that i mean i was driven to suicide as a result of anguish induced by intense federal surveillance there were many explanations for hemingway suicide at the time that he'd been fighting with his wife that he was terminally ill and that he was drowning in financial problems but harder insists none of those were true early before taking his own life heaven we complained to his friends of torment due to constant f.b.i. surveillance as he said it's the worst hell or the goddamn missed hell they've bugged everything that's why we're using my friend's car mine's bugged everything's bugged can't use the phone mail intercepted even his closest friends are not fully believe him at the time. but it turns out he wasn't just paranoid afterall the f.b.i. started keeping tabs on one of america's literary treasures as early as the one nine hundred forty s. j. edgar hoover took extra special interest in hemingway reportedly due to his time spent in cuba

the name e n ernest hemingway. ersary of hemingway's death. he spent his life traveling around the world, establishing that reputation, redefining the way we think about american writing. he did traveling on our own to see how friends and fans are marking this date. >> i work on a new book always. >> reporter: ernest hemingway had many homes but on july 2nd, 1961, this cabin in ketchum, idaho, became his last. bud purdy knew him. >> it was sad, he was a friend. >> reporter: hemingway took his life in his foyer with a shotgun. >> we saw it in the paper, before i guess we saw it anywhere. >> reporter: bud purdy was one of the last people to witness the depression that clouded his final years. >> he was very uncertain about everything. he wasn't, his mind wasn't working good. >> reporter: what happened to hemingway? it's a question we're still trying to sort out. fame kind of ate him in a way. >> reporter: hemingway was a journalist before he was a novelist, from an early age, practicing and refining his spartan style.

a new claim over the death of ernest hemingway, a theory why the famous writer decided to take his own life. good morning, i'm alex witt. welcome to "msnbc sunday." final judgment, nearing in the casey anthony trial this morning. just an hour from now, closing arguments scheduled to begin in the case of the 25-year-old mother accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter caylee. then the case goes to the jury. live in orlando. good sunday morning to you. lay out what's going to happen today. >> reporter: today the prosecution will begin laying out its closing arguments, likely based -- they have to base it actually on the evidence already presented. judge perry was specific neither party can make statements not based on evidence already presented which makes that question stand up whether or not the defense will bring up accusations, allegations that casey was molested by her father and brother in order to explain her behavior and her lies. than we will hear today. once done, out first goes the prosecution, then the defense, then the prosecution gets to wrap it up and deliberations beg

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. >>> and finally in florida, several men did their best impersonation of ernest hemingway. the annual look alike contest at the hemingway days festival pitted over 100 clones of the famous writer against one another. the winner, a 63-year-old biomedical engineer said along with his looks, he shared hemingway's fondness for sport fishing and writing. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. >> they look friendly and fun, right? >> like your grandfather. big hug. jolly old man. >> they can play santa in the off-season. good morning, everyone. yesterday we turned the heat up just a notch on the dial in the northwest. we were up into the 80s and after the summer we had it was appreciated. boi boise, way up on the dial. heat builds into cities like medford. cool on the immediate coast but 87 in portland. temperatures have cooled off with a frontal system that's come in. jet stream dipping to the south. still warm in boise. deserts are warm. san francisco down to 56. that's jacket weather. yo

. >>> finally, in florida, several men did their best impersonation of ernest hemingway. the annual contest pitted 1 hundred clones of the writer against one another. the winner, a biomedical engineer, along with his looks, he shared his fondness for sport fishing and writing. >>> now, for a look for the national weather, we turn to bill cairns for the forecast. >> good morning, amara. >> if you've been down to the keys, there's tons of cats walking around. and the cats do the sunset show. memories in key west. i could be here all day talking about those. good morning, everyone. the big story of the heat wave is shrinking back down. some of us are going to get relief. but not all of us. the heat wave that was on the east coast, has retreated back to texas, oklahoma and into the plains. the worst of the heat will be centered where the blue "h" is. in the east, we're lucky. the jet stream is dipping a little bit. there's a cold front in canada. and that's going to give a lot of us relief. more clouds than what we've seen. we don't see heat warnings or advisories in the nort

most think it was mark twain but others believe it was actually ernest hemingway. it goes something like the coileddest winter i ever spent was a summer in san francisco. it certainly is true. look at our live cbs 5 weather camera looking towards mount diablo. we do have the low clouds and fog, the fog, the marine layer even pushing inland at this hour. quite breezy, as well. socked in at the coast and the bay where the current air temperature only stands at 60 degrees in san francisco. marine forecast does call for the low clouds, patchy fog to push into the bay. here we have your pinpoint forecast right now. let's look at how you stand for tomorrow. looks like we'll have more of the same. a mirror image with the low clouds and fog penetrating the inland areas at least a good 60 to 75 miles. drizzle tonight through tomorrow morning's commute and barely any clearing at the beaches during the day. currently, our air temperature stands at 60 in san francisco and up to 74 degrees at the delta. but the winds are coming into play. out of the west at 17, some gusts as st

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crowning an ernest hemingway look-alike. >> this year's winner is matt gineo, finally victorious, in y. he says he thinks it was the sweater like the one hemingway wore in an iconic photo. he does look a lot like him. >> hemingway probably wore that sweater in much cooler climates unlike key west this time of year. gineo says he was steaming hot but it was worth it. even the ladies getting into the act, love that with the beard. >> the old man and the sea. >> yes. more "world news now" coming up after the break. after the break. >>> it's already been a painfu >>> it's already been a painful summer for the family of maria shriver and arnold schwarzenegger, and now it's getting worse. >> their 13-year-old son christopher was in a bad surfing accident last week and now he's in intensive care at a california hospital. here's abc's david wright. >> los angeles county fire department. >> reporter: maria shriver made the 911 call herself last sunday from her malibu beach hoe. >> it's like a boogie board accident, i think. he can't move off the beach. maybe like broken ribs or something like

ernest hemingway, the writer who won the pulitzer and nobel prize.e lived in this house from 1928 to 1939. he, over one of my shoulders is the home. over the other, a separate house where he did his work. during this next telephone call, we will look at some of the scenes on the first floor of this hemingway home. our call is from albuquerque, new mexico. >> caller: yes. you are close. muskeegon, michigan and albuquerque, new mexico. >> oh, ok. >> caller: have i two questions, really. one is there are apparently two versions of the snows of kill man jajarro. one took on directly scott fitzgerald and then it was later removed. maybe i can hear something about the story as to why the indictment of scott fitzgerald in that story was removed. and secondly, maybe it would be interesting to find out why hemingway, himself, in two of his letters, stated that his favorite short story of all of his short stories, was a clean, well-lighted place, which is an amazingly short, short story for hemingway, but a very, very eccentric one in many ways. vermaybe i can

or groups of cher impersonators, but over the weekend in key west, florida, check out these ernest hemingway bar and grill had old men, white beards. they almost look a little too much like the oh old man of the sea. >>> a practical joker ending up giving one teammate a hot foot. two detroit tigers players justin verlander and todd kelly played dare in the dugout. he sets the back of kelly's shoes on fire. just a little ballgame fun i guess. sflimplg maybe the detroit outfielder should have tried this. a hand stand contest. a group of people in taiwan tried to break the world record for the longest hand stand. no one took the title, but everybody managed stay up for at least 15 seconds. another tried a world record. people at a singapore food festival were trying to make the longest table. can be a record. some city dwellers could weigh less than their suburban counterparts. you will of that walking to the grocery store or home from work. new study shows the most walkable cities, new york, san francisco, and boston. and if you ever wanted to send something to the moon, you might get the chan

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the centuries-old tradition achieved international fame thanks for ernest hemingway's writings back in the '20s and '30s. definitely for the swift of foot. >>> let's get a check of the we are. al is off. maria is here. >> we do have the sunshine, though, across the pacific northwest behind a cold front. ahead of it, showers and >> here's a look at what can expect. >> yes, speaking of that monsoonal moisture it's actually increasing to the north that we're seeing showers in the bay area. let me show you where they are. just to the south of san leandro we have this cell, another one this morning to the north of danville. so you could find slick conditions, overall moisture from the south. might see a few thunderstorms later on. they will be isolated. 86 in livermore, 85 in los gatos, we continue to cool off as we head into the weekend. >>> david, back to you. >>> thank you very much. jaycee dugard, the california woman, spent 18 years in captivity at the hands of phillip and anthony garrido is revealing her horrific ordeal in her own words. with get more about the memoir. >>> jaycee duga

work of ernest hemingway? >> i like to look at his contribution to american literature overall. he agree with john he's our most important writer largely for his contribution to style. he changed way americans write forever. and i think he's probably the best short-story writer in the english language. his co con prib diewtion to the short story is remarkable. i also think he is very special for projecting american lit you are to really around the world. >> before you answer, i wanted to let people hear about the course you are teaching because i would love to take it. i don't think i can go back in time to be with your students, but tell our audience about it. >> i teach at the women yams maratime museum in connecticut. i teach in the context of the literature of the sea. my students have an opportunity to read his work after for instance reading mellville and also after doing things like sailing a schooner from key west to cuba. >> when will they take that trip? >> they have taken it already in january and in just a week or two, they will be reading old man ad the sea as their