MIAMINEWTIMES: “William Kennedy, a Miami Book Fair Standout”, por Chuck Strouse (Inglés)

The caller to the Miami Herald newsroom had a blockbuster tip: Ernest Hemingway was holed up in a North Miami saloon. "You should go talk to him," the man told a young reporter.
William Kennedy, then 29 years old, slammed down the phone and sprinted toward a crusty city editor, John McMullan. "A big story?" Kennedy asked.
"Not likely," replied the newsroom nabob. The author of The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea was yesterday's news. "I'm tired of reading about him."
That was 1957. Four years later, Hemingway made a bloody mess of his legacy with two shotgun shells in Idaho.
"One of the great regrets of my life is that I didn't go up there," says Kennedy, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature and become one of the most eminent American novelists of the late 20th Century. "The fact that I didn't has haunted me all of my life."
That memory helped spark Kennedy, now 83 years old, to write his ninth novel, Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes. He'll describe it at Miami Book Fair International this Sunday.