![]() ![]() I’m very excited about the book and that it is coming out in LIFE so that many people will read it who could not afford to buy it.”įive million copies of the magazine sold within two days. “Don’t you think it is a strange damn story that it should affect all of us (me especially) the way it does?. Hemingway wrote to Daniel Longwell, LIFE Editorial Board Chairman: ![]() Hemingway believed so strongly in the story of The Old Man and the Sea that he agreed to release the novel through a LIFE magazine insert two weeks before the book’s release. After Hemingway’s friend and Broadway producer Leland Hayward talked about the novel with enthusiasm at a LIFE editorial lunch, Hayward sent a manuscript to the editorial board at LIFE. The Old Man and the Sea first appeared as a 20-page insert in the Septemissue of LIFE magazine. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. ![]()
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