[nickcarraway]

Hemingway never seemed that politically committed.

[Sans-Culotte]

He was really into the Spanish Civil War, and probably hooked up with the Stalinistas when he was in Spain.

[SunkenCiv]

George Will mentioned the Hemingway spying on the air some years ago. Could be this is a book, and Will had read an article or research paper?

[gundog]

Not being enough of a commie cost him the Pulitzer for For Whom the Bell Tolls.

[ozzymandus]

I would say “enthusiastic but not very effective” would describe every aspect of Hemingway.

[SonnyBubba]

I love Hemingways writings, but he was always shooting his mouth off.

[struggle]

I'm finishing my master's thesis on The Sun Also Rises as we speak.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Winning entry from the annual Bad Hemingway writing contest:

“Ernest Hemingway had been his hero ever since he was belched out of his mother’s angry, belligerent womb.”

[Robwin]

Hemingway was just another of those lousy writers promoted by the Leftist dominated critics of the 20s and 30s because he was politically reliable. He cut his teeth on collaboration with the Communists during the Spanish Civil War. He was a liar, a charlatan, a latent homosexual, and a poseur. I am not at all surprised he was willing to serve Stalin as a spy, effective or not.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

I have read every book Hemingway wrote. There was nothing ever to indicate he was a procommunist.

That is nuts. That is how rumors get started.

Not in his writings but toward the end, he was preoccupied about committing suicide which he finally did.

[normanpubbie]

There was no KGB in the time frame mentioned in the article. The agency was called the NKVD. Typical sloppy UPI reportage.

[Tijeras_Slim]

He was probably scamming them like he did to get gas for his boat from the US govt during the war so he could “look for submarines” off Cuba in the prime deep sea fishing areas.