Tag: Ernest Hemingway

• THE HUMAN HEIRS OF MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS

  

  By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social Last week, I wrote about the inspiration of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on my life and career. Here is the essay “Human Heirs” that I wrote for the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Essay Contest in 2001 as I left my decades-long teaching career to venture into freelance writing. The essay won first…

  P. C. Zick

  June 17, 2025

  Books by P. C. Zick, historical fiction, Life in the United States, Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Ideas

  Cross Creek, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Florida environment, Florida fiction, Florida nonfiction, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ross Allen, South Moon Under, The Yearling

• Book Review Friday – The Great Gatsby

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick I am a lover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. So I was fascinated by director Baz Luhrmann’s attempt to recreate one of my favorite novels on the screen. Not only did the director need a movie so much larger than life, he also needed to outshine the earlier…

  P. C. Zick

  May 17, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  1920s, Daisy Buchanan, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, Leonard diCaprio, Paris, Robert Redfor, The Great Gatsby, Zelda

• Two Male Authors and Their Books

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Two books, two male authors, and two similar disillusioned looks at love kept me reading late into the night recently. I admit I read books written by women with intriguing female protagonists most of the time. It’s my preferred choice because I’m a female author who creates female protagonists in pursuit…

  P. C. Zick

  December 13, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace

  authors, characters, Douglas Kennedy, Ernest Hemingway, fiction, Jeffrey Eugenides, Leaving the World, novels, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Marriage Plot, Tom Wolfe, writers

• All memory is fiction

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. -Ernest Hemingway I just finished reading The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, a fictional account of Hemingway’s first marriage to Hadley Richardson. They married before he’d published any of his novels, and she…

  P. C. Zick

  August 21, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer

  caricatures, characters, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald. autobiography, fiction, Gertrude Stein, memory, The Paris Wife, writers