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Lorian Hemingway (born December 15, 1951) is an American author and freelance journalist. Her books include the memoir Walk on Water, the novel Walking Into the River, and the non-fiction book A World Turned Over, about the devastation of her hometown of South Jackson, Mississippi, by the Candlestick Park Tornado in 1966.
In 1981 Lorian Hemingway could not have dreamed that the small Key West short story competition she judged would one day become one of America’s most prestigious literary contests. That first year the contest drew 75 entries from Key West and a few other cities in Florida.
Her newest work of non-fiction, A World Turned Over: A Killer Tornado and the Lives It Changed Forever, depicts the deadly 1966 tornado that struck the Candlestick Shopping Center in South Jackson, Mississippi.
Lorian Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, talks about her books, her addiction, her tornado story and her short story competition. She shares her memories, her feelings and her views on life, work and legacy.
The Key West Shuffle It is hard to imagine a more radical change of lifestyle, culture, and geography, than Hemingway’s move from Europe to Key West, […] “ . . . a great blend of journalism, history, and story telling. Wonderful reading!”. – Paul E. Stolle.
HEMINGWAY, Lorian 1951-PERSONAL: Born December 15, 1951, in Venice, CA; daughter of Gregory Hancock (a physician) and Shirley Jane (maiden name, McClain; present surname, Rhodes) Hemingway; married Jeffrey Allen Ward-Fischer (a remodeler), September 31, 1989; children: Cristen Hemingway Jaynes.
8 lug 2003 · The fury and destruction ended in seconds, but in those moments the tornado had ripped through the heart of a community, changing lives forever. In A World Turned Over, Lorian Hemingway returns to the Jackson she knew as a child and tells the story of the Candlestick Tornado, as it came to be known.
- Lorian Hemingway
