Journalist-turned-novelist Ernest Hemingway was known for his clean ... that Hemingway wrote the gut-punching line "For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn" to win a bet against his writer friends.

The words were: "For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn ... century captured the popular imagination more powerfully than Ernest Hemingway. Three decades after his suicide, we are still fascinated ...

It’s been called the world’s shortest short story: “For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn.” It’s been attributed to that most minimal prose stylist, Ernest Hemingway. The legend that he won a ...

On Monday, the site’s proprietor, Garson O’Toole, looked into a six-word fiction supposedly written by Ernest Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Hemingway’s authorship of the ...

Remember Ernest Hemingway's famous six-word story, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn"? Except it seems not to have been his. At quoteinvestigator.com, a blogger who goes by the pen name Garson O ...

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway won a bet by writing the six-word story “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.” Hoping to cash in on that story’s success, Hemingway wrote some six-word sequels.

Ernest Hemingway was a titan of 20th-century literature ... memoir of his youth in Paris's café culture. 7. The famous "Baby Shoes" story is most likely a myth. Oddly enough, a story many ...

Instead, we must start with Ernest Hemingway’s famous “six-word novel,” which spans all of a single sentence: For sale: baby shoes. Never worn. But surprise! Hemingway actually didn’t ...

There’s an old story about Ernest Hemingway accepting a bet that he couldn’t write a short story in six words. The story goes that Hemingway responded by writing: “For sale: baby shoes, ...