In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises

With editors J. Gerald Kennedy and Michael Thurston

Part of the Norton Library and Norton Critical Edition Speakers Series

Join us for a conversation between Norton Critical Edition editors J. Gerald Kennedy (In Our Time) and Michael Thurston (The Sun Also Rises) on why these works by Ernest Hemingway have endured.

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J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity and coeditor (with Jackson R. Bryer) of French Connections: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad. He was advisory editor of volumes 1–3 of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway, under the general editorship of Sandra Spanier, and he is coediting a forthcoming volume of Hemingway letters, the final years. He is also the author of a number of essays on Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and expatriate Paris, and he edited Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities. His publications on nineteenth-century American literature include Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing and (with fellowship support from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the NEH) a wide-ranging cultural history, Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe.


Michael Thurston is the Helen Means Professor of English at Smith College. His previous books include Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars, The Underworld Descent in Twentieth-Century Poetry, and Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry (with Nigel Alderman). He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and currently serves as Provost and Dean of the Faculty.

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