1 Space Can Account for 70% of Your Life’s Work

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Author (left) with now wife Elizabeth (right) in 2015 at The Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West.

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In the Writer’s Digest article, The Hemingway Home & Museum, Zachary Petit dives into Ernest Hemingway’s house in Key West and how it shaped the writer.

Interestingly, the director of the now-museum, Andrew Morawski, says,

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“He started or completed 70 percent of his life’s work in that writing studio. That’s where the magic happened for Ernest Hemingway down here in Key West…”

That’s an astonishing statistic considering he only lived there for less than 8 years.

Other writers feel the same way, as they and a guest can book a slot after closing called “Evening Writing Experience,” where they get a tour and the chance to work in the late writer’s studio.

While much of Hemingway’s legacy has become mythicized, his Key West experience highlights…