Earl Theisen / John F. Kennedy Library

Ernest Hemingway, writing on safari

Ernest Hemingway writes at a small, portable desk while on safari in Kenya in 1953.

Photograph by Earl Theisen for LOOK Magazine. The photo is now part of the collections of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, in Boston. (Photo ID: EH3541P.) Hemingway's personal papers were donated to the JFK Library by his wife, Mary, after his death.

See our biography of Ernest Hemingway