Write Like Hemingway: Find Your Voice, Discover Your Style Using the 10 Rules That Guided A Nobel Laureate

by Ed Gleason

An examination of how The Kansas City Star’s style guide shaped Hemingway’s unmistakable writing style.

Acclaimed for his lean, succinct prose, Write Like Hemingway connects the dots between Ernest Hemingway’s earliest writing job and his most memorable fiction. After graduating high school, and before heading to Italy to drive an ambulance during World War I, “Papa” spent about 6 months over the course of 1917 and 1918 writing police reports for The Kansas City Star. Following the paper’s style guide, with rules like “Use short sentences,” and approximately 100 more similarly exacting ones, Hemingway learned how to write, and carried these lessons of narrative economy with him for the rest of his life.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

208 pages, Hardcover

Published November 26, 2019

Reviews

[David Rullo · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good primer on some of Hemingway's writing technique. A nice addition would have actually been the Star's style guide.

[Paul Reidy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book on Hemingway's writing style and influences. I read a few stories as I read it. I read the last 3 books together, time for some fiction, I reckon.

[Adam Sarlan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A guide for how to write like Ernest Hemingway, the greatest writer in the literary world.