The Sun Also Rises/Trivia

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  • Write Who You Know: Nearly everyone in the novel is based off of Hemingway's friends at the time. Jake was based on Hemingway himself, Cohn was based on Harold Loeb (whose mother was a member of the wealthy Guggenheim family, and who was a wrestler - not a boxer - at Princeton before founding short-lived literary magazine Broom), Frances was based on Loeb's companion Kitty Cannell, Brett was based on expatriate British aristocrat Mary Duff, Lady Twysden (with whom Loeb had a fling), Mike was based on "lovable" but "irresponsible" expatriate Pat Guthrie, and Bill was based on two people, writer Donald Ogden Stewart and Hemingway's fishing buddy and boyhood friend Bill Smith. Loeb, Cannell, Twysden, Stewart, and Smith all went to Pamplona with Hemingway and his wife Hadley in the summer of 1925.
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