Hemingway, on the other hand ...

Here is a blockquote within a blockquote on Ernest Hemingway among the lefties:

When left-wing critics of the 1930's attacked him for not embracing doctrinaire Marxism, Ernest Hemingway replied:

I cannot be a communist now because I believe in only one thing: liberty. First I would look after myself and do my work. Then I would care for my family. Then I would help my neighbor. But the state 'I care nothing for. All the state has ever meant to me is unjust taxation ... I believe in the absolute minimum of government.

A writer is an outlyer like a gypsy ... If he is a good writer he will never like the government he lives under. His hand should be against it....

(Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story by Carlos Baker, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969)

In the foreword to his own book, Baker writes: "If [Hemingway] was the fierce individualist who resisted fad and fashion like the plague ... who believed that that government is best which governs least, who hated tyranny, bureaucracy, taxation, propaganda...."

- Jerome Tucille, "From Libertine To Libertarian," Libertarian Forum, 2.2, January 15, 1970, available from Mises.org in PDF.