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Key West Writers
Author Ernest Hemingway stopped in Key West for a few nights in the late ‘20s, and like many of its current residents stayed and became a resident “local.” For more than 80 years, writers of all kinds – novelists, playwrights, poets, journalists, screenwriters, songwriters, and short storywriters – followed Hemingway’s example and have stopped and stayed. If you add into the mixture the other artists that have come to Key West – painters, photographers, dancers and sculptures – you begin to realize there is something about the Keys that artists of all sorts find invigorating. A Muse, in many disguises, hides on our island and writers find it hard to let her go; while they love her, they write, often better than they have ever done, or ever will do. If you are an artist, you don’t need to seek out Zeus’ daughters, they will find you.
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