Ernest Hemingway Talk led by Deno Trakas

A novelist, journalist and short story writer, Ernest Hemingway revolutionized all three literary forms with his abbreviated style, earning him the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. His adventurous life was as rebellious and noteworthy as his writings. It was a life of warring, bull fighting, woman chasing, drinking and hunting that was romanticized during his lifetime as well as now.

Before retiring in 2022, Deno Trakas was the Laura and Winston Hoy Professor of American Literature and Chair of the English Department at Wofford College in Spartanburg. He taught literature, including a course on Fitzgerald and Hemingway, composition and creative writing and served as the director of the writing center.

He’s the author of the novel Messenger from Mystery, the memoir Because Memory Isn’t Eternal: A Story of Greeks in Upstate South Carolina as well as two chapbooks of poetry, The Shuffle of Wings and human & puny. He has also published fiction and poetry in anthologies and magazines such as The Denver Quarterly, Oxford America and Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek American Poetry.

He’s won five South Carolina Fiction Project Prizes and a South Carolina Individual Artist Grant. He ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. In retirement he teaches American novels (including The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms) in the Lifelong Learning Program at Wofford College and spends his time reading, writing, playing tennis, playing with his indefatigable grandchildren and walking his Doberman, who thinks she's the queen of the neighborhood.

Free admission. This event is a discussion, not an in-character performance.