Evan Shipman

Evan Biddle Shipman (October 23, 1904 – June 24, 1957) was an American novelist, poet, newspaperman and soldier. After schooling in New England, Shipman befriended fellow American writer Ernest Hemingway in 1920s Paris and wrote poems and articles for various American magazines. In 1937, he aided the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded in battle. He attended various schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and read widely, encouraged by his father; although a lifelong love of horse racing affected his attendance. In Paris, he became an acquaintance of fellow American expatriates Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, and the French painter André Masson. He died of cancer on June 24, 1957, in New York Hospital, and was buried in Gilkey Cemetery in Plainfield, New Hampshire. The Evan Shipman Handicap at Belmont Park was later named for him. The union was troubled by alcoholism, and Elizabeth, who became insane, was confined to an asylum, while Shipman went back to Paris in 1937. The Racing Memoirs of John Hertz as told to Evan Shipman (Chicago, Privately Printed, 1954), non-fiction

Literary allusions Evan Shipman is mentioned in Death in the Afternoon (1932), Hemingway's account of Spanish bullfighting, as a fellow admirer of a certain half-bred racehorse, a steeplechaser, named Uncas. "Uncas, when he won a classic steeplechase race at Auteuil at odds of better than ten to one, carrying my money on him, I felt profound affection for. But if you should ask me what eventually happened to this animal that I was so fond of that Evan Shipman and I were nearly moved to tears when speaking of the noble beast, I would have to answer that I do not know." Hemingway went on to portray his friend at greater length in the section of A Moveable Feast (1964) titled "Evan Shipman at the Lilas".