Stanley Hotel, Nairobi film "The Ghost and the Darkness", also found his inspiration while staying at the Stanley. Elspeth Huxley, author of "The Flame Trees of Thika", "The Mottled Lizard", "Red Strangers", and other books, frequented the Stanley Hotel and used it as a setting for several of her works. "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", a 1936 short story by Ernest Hemingway, takes place at the New Stanley Hotel. In 1947, it was adapted into "The Macomber Affair", a film starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett, which was shot at the hotel. Citations Sources Stanley Hotel, Nairobi The Stanley Hotel (currently
Farewell Summer Farewell Summer Farewell Summer is a novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published on October 17, 2006. It was his last novel released in his lifetime. It is a sequel to his 1957 novel "Dandelion Wine", and is set during an Indian summer in October 1929. The story concerns a mock war between the young and the old in Green Town, Illinois, and the sexual awakening of Doug Spaulding as he turns 14. With "Something Wicked This Way Comes", they form a trilogy of novels inspired by Bradbury's childhood in Waukegan, Illinois. The first chapter, also titled "Farewell Summer", appeared