Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
We are updating our website. Some features may be unavailable during this time. For more information, including currently known issues, visit here.

Hemingway's Home in Cuba, the Finca Vigía

Season 1 Episode 2 | 1m 56s

In the spring of 1939, Ernest Hemingway returned to Havana, Cuba where Martha Gellhorn would later join him. Martha rented the Finca Vigía, a 10-acre property outside the city where they could live together, which Hemingway would eventually buy and would become his home for the next two decades.

Corporate funding for HEMINGWAY was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by the Annenberg Foundation, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and by ‘The Better Angels Society,’ and its members John & Leslie McQuown, the Elizabeth Ruth Wallace Living Trust, John & Catherine Debs, The Fullerton Family Charitable Trust, the Kissick Family Foundation, Gail M. Elden, Gilchrist & Amy Berg, Robert & Beverly Grappone, Mauree Jane & Mark Perry; and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS.
Latest Episodes
Hemingway writes The Old Man and the Sea but is overcome by mental illness.
Hemingway, having achieved literary fame, goes to report on the Spanish Civil War.
Hemingway moves to Paris and finds success with his second novel, A Farewell to Arms.
Extras
Appraisal: Victorian Slide Chain & Diamond Bracelet
Aaron Glantz and Sophie Hills discuss AI companies' efforts to influence the midterms.
October 27, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
News Wrap: AI giant Anthropic preparing for initial public offering
Candidates enter final week of campaigning with control of Congress at stake
Netanyahu faces Israeli voters in first election since Oct. 7 and Gaza war
Lula prevails in Brazil but Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede
How do you study a wetland when it isn't wet? Jordon and Rae enter a very dry Everglades.
Campaigns spend big to sway voters with increasingly personal attack ads
Student-led movement ousts Serbia's right-wing ruler in historic election
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein on producing their latest documentary.
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explore the writer and his enduring influence.
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explore the writer and his enduring influence.
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick uncover the man behind the myth.
Hemingway was inspired to write "The Sun Also Rises" during his travels across Spain.
Edna O'Brien reads a passage from Ernest Hemingway's short story, "Up in Michigan."
Two years' worth of Hemingway's work was lost on a train from Paris when he was just 23.
During his time in Italy during WWI, Ernest Hemingway suffered life-threatening injuries.
Hemingway's love of nature and writers' discipline were instilled in him from a young age.
Senator John McCain discusses his hero Robert Jordan of "For Whom the Bell Tolls."