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The author and artist Barnaby Conrad – a Rincon Point resident from 1973 until his death in 2013 – credited two towering figures of 20th-century American literature with molding his

istock (background) / Scribner (cover) The Old Man and the Sea was the last major work Ernest Hemingway published in his lifetime. The simple story is about an old man who catches a giant fish in the waters off Cuba, only to have it devoured by sharks. Defeated, he returns home with the fish’s skeleton attached to the boat. Many consider this spare novel to be Hemingway’s best work.  1. Ernest Hemingway wrote When The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952, Hemingway hadn’t written ...