Larry Grimes is Professor Emeritus of English in the Gresham Chair for Humanities at Bethany College (WV) where he was Department Chair for 25 years. He also served as Dean of Arts...view moreLarry Grimes is Professor Emeritus of English in the Gresham Chair for Humanities at Bethany College (WV) where he was Department Chair for 25 years. He also served as Dean of Arts and Sciences and Vice President and Dean of the Faculty. He is the author of The Religious Design of Hemingway’s Early Fiction and, with Bickford Sylvester, editor of Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban Works, and with Bickford Sylvester and Peter Hays, author of The Old Man and the Sea. for the Kent State University Press. A founding member of the Hemingway Society, he has served on the Hemingway Society Board and is, presently, Director of the International Hemingway Conference scheduled for July 2022 in Sheridan, Wyoming and Cooke City, Montana.
In addition to his several essays on Hemingway, he has published essays on crime fiction, the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the Coen Brothers, and is completing a collection of poems. In his spare time, he makes a drinkable cabernet sauvignon and teases trout every chance he can get.view less