Nancy W SindelarNancy W. Sindelar, PhD, is the author of Influencing Hemingway: People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work and a popular presenter on the life and work of Ernest Hemingway. She has made multiple presentations at the International Colloquium Ernet Hemingway in Havana, Cuba; the American Literature Association Conferences in the United States; and the Hemingway Society Conferences in Italy, France, and Spain as well as Oak Park, Illinois, and Sheridan, Wyoming. She also has keynoted the Hemingway Festivals in Key West, Florida, and Sun Valley, Idaho. Nancy's writing and presentations are energized by her passion for all things Hemingway, her research into his private letters and published works, and her extensive travel to and knowledge of the locales that were important to him. She has lived in Hemingway's home in Ketchum, Idaho, as the 2021 Writer-in-Residence, has guided walking tours through young Hemingway's Oak Park, and has been a cultural enrichment speaker on luxury cruises to Cuba and the Caribbean. She has stood in the bedroom where Hemingway was born and in the foyer where he ended his life, and has visited all the places in between. Nancy is a board member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park and teaches "Hemingway's Women" at the University of California, Riverside and the Newberry Library, Chicago. Read More Read Less