For Whom the Bell Tolls
In early 1939, Hemingway crossed to Cuba in his boat to live in the Hotel Ambos Mundos in Havana. That summer, after a family reunion in Wyoming, Pauline and the children left Hemingway. Following his divorce from Pauline, he married Martha on November 20, 1940, in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Gellhorn inspired him to write his most famous novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, which he started in March 1939 and finished in July 1940. It was published the same October. Hemingway liked to move around while working on a manuscript, and he wrote his Spanish Civil War novel in Cuba, Wyoming, and Sun Valley. The book sold half a million copies within months. The book also received a Pulitzer Prize nomination and “triumphantly re-established Hemingway’s literary reputation.” Additionally, it was adapted into a 1943 film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.
