A story written by a young Ernest Hemingway and rejected by Vanity Fair in 1924 has his estate still seeing red.
Harper’s Magazine has been picked to publish the literary lion’s “My Life in the Bull Ring With Donald Ogden,” in its October issue, despite a reported recent request to publish it by Graydon Carter’s Vanity Fair.
Hemingway submitted the story at age 25 to the mag’s Literary Hors d’Oeuvres section, but then-VF editor Frank Crownshield responded, “With our regret . . . we cannot use it, clever and amusing as it undoubtedly is.”
Hemingway’s son Patrick sniffed earlier this year: “I’m not a great fan of Vanity Fair. It’s a sort of luxury thinker’s magazine, for people who get their satisfaction out of driving a Jaguar instead of a Mini.”