How Ernest Hemingway dealt with the Spanish flu pandemic: He was not a denier, he was scarred by it
How Ernest Hemingway dealt with the Spanish flu pandemic: He was not a denier, he was scarred by it The author dodged the peaks of the 1918-'19 pandemic waves by weeks, sometimes days, in Italy. Dec 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm Earlier this year, as the world came to terms with the coronavirus pandemic, a letter purporting to have been written by F Scott Fitzgerald in the midst of the 1918 flu pandemic did the rounds on the internet. It was, of course, a parody, but the writing style and notes to his pal Ernest Hemingway meant the letter – unless you are a Fitzgerald expert – was pretty con...