Ernest Hemingway's Cuban archives released

Ernest Hemingway’s archives, compiled during the Nobel-winning author’s 21-year residence in Cuba, were reportedly made available to scholars on Monday. The documents were stored in the basement of his home near Havana surviving decades of humidity and insects and are currently being restored and digitized by Cuban conservationists.

Among the materials recovered are 2,000 documents, manuscripts of some of Hemingway’s works, letters and 9,000 books—2,000 of which are annotated by the author. Currently half of the materials have been restored and will be made available in the U.S. later this month at the John F. Kennedy presidential library in Boston. During his stay in Cuba Hemingway wrote The Old Man and The Sea, A Moveable Feast and Islands In The Stream.