To Have and Have Not - wikipedia To Have and Have Not For the film adaptation, see To Have and Have Not ( film ). To Have and Have Not First edition cover Author Ernest Hemingway Country United States Language English Genre Fiction Publisher Charles Scribner 's Sons Publication date 1937 To Have and Have Not is a novel by Ernest Hemingway ( publ. 1937 ) about Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain out of Key West, Florida. The novel depicts Harry as an essentially good man, who is forced by dire economic forces beyond his control into the black - market activity of running contraband between Cuba and Florida. A wealthy fishing charter customer ( one of the `` Have 's '' ) tricks Harry by slipping away without paying after a three - week fishing trip, leaving Harry destitute. Harry then makes a fateful decision to smuggle Chinese immigrants into Florida from Cuba to make ends meet in supporting his family. Harry begins to regularly ferry different types of illegal cargo between the two countries, including alcohol and Cuban revolutionaries. The Great Depression features prominently in the novel, forcing depravity and hunger on the poor residents of Key West ( the `` Have Not 's '' ) who are referred to locally as `` Conchs. '' To Have and Have Not was Hemingway 's second novel set in the United States, after The Torrents of Spring. Written sporadically between 1935 and 1937, and revised as he traveled back and forth from Spain during the Spanish Civil War, To Have and Have Not portrays Key West and Cuba in the 1930s, and provides a social commentary on that time and place. Hemingway biographer, Jeffrey Meyers describes the novel as heavily influenced by the Marxist ideology Hemingway was exposed to by his support of the Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War while he was writing it. The work got a mixed critical reception. The novel had its origins in two short stories published earlier in periodicals by Hemingway ( `` One Trip Across '' and `` The Tradesman 's Return '' ) which make up the opening chapters, and a novella, written later, which makes up about two - thirds of the book. The narrative is told from multiple viewpoints, at different times, by different characters, and the characters ' names are frequently supplied under the chapter headings to indicate who is narrating that chapter. Contents 1 Background and publication history 2 Film adaptations 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links Background and publication history To Have and Have Not began as a short story -- published as `` One Trip Across '' in Cosmopolitan in 1934 -- introducing the character Harry Morgan. A second story was written and published in Esquire in 1936, at which point, Hemingway decided to write a novel about Harry Morgan. Unfortunately the writing of the novel coincided with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. To Have and Have Not was published by Scribner 's on 15 October 1937 to a first edition print - run of approximately 10,000 copies. Cosmopolitan Magazine published a section of the novel as `` One Trip Across '' in 1934 ; and Esquire Magazine published a section as `` The Tradesman 's Return '' in 1936. Film adaptations To Have and Have Not was adapted to film in 1944, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The film, directed by Howard Hawks, changed the story 's setting from Key West to Martinique under the Vichy regime, and made significant alterations to the plot, including getting rid of Hemingway 's Marxist overtones, and turning the story into a romantic thriller centering on the sparks going on between Harry Morgan and Marie Browning. It was one of the influences for Bold Venture, a 1951 -- 1952 syndicated radio series starring Bogart and Bacall. The second film version, titled The Breaking Point ( 1950 ), was directed by Michael Curtiz and stars John Garfield and Patricia Neal with Juano Hernandez as Morgan 's partner. The movie shifted the action to southern California and made Garfield a former PT Boat captain but is otherwise the most faithful to the original book. The third film version, titled The Gun Runners ( 1958 ), was directed by Don Siegel and stars Audie Murphy in the Bogart / Garfield role and Everett Sloane in Walter Brennan 's part as the alcoholic sidekick, although Sloane 's interpretation was less overtly comedic than Brennan 's. The movie features a bravura performance by Eddie Albert as a charismatic villain. Pauline Kael and Bosley Crowther have claimed that the ending was used for John Huston 's film Key Largo ( 1948 ) ; Kael also said that `` One Trip Across '' was made into The Gun Runners ( 1958 ). The 1977 film The Deep reused characters and plot elements, setting the tale in Bermuda with the villain a Haitian drug lord. The alcoholic sidekick to the boat skipper was played by Eli Wallach. In 1987 the Iranian director Nasser Taghvai adopted the novel into a nationalized version called Captain Khorshid which took the events from Cuba to the shores of the Persian Gulf. Notes Jump up ^ Meyers 1985, pp. 292 -- 296 Jump up ^ Baker 1972, pp. 203 -- 204 ^ Jump up to : Oliver, p. 327 Jump up ^ `` To Have and Have Not ''. film. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 3 April 2011. Jump up ^ Kael, Pauline ( 1991 ). `` To Have and Have Not ''. 5001 Nights at the Movies. New York : Henry Holt. p. 776. ISBN 0 - 8050 - 1366 - 0. References Baker, Carlos ( 1972 ). Hemingway : The Writer as Artist ( 4th ed. ). Princeton University Press. ISBN 0 - 691 - 01305 - 5. Mellow, James R. ( 1992 ). Hemingway : A Life Without Consequences. New York : Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0 - 395 - 37777 - 3. Meyers, Jeffrey ( 1985 ). Hemingway : A Biography. London : Macmillan. ISBN 0 - 333 - 42126 - 4. Oliver, Charles M. ( 1999 ). Ernest Hemingway A to Z : The Essential Reference to the Life and Work. New York : Checkmark. ISBN 0 - 8160 - 3467 - 2. External links Hemingway Archives, John F. Kennedy Library Ernest Hemingway Bibliography Novels The Torrents of Spring ( 1926 ) The Sun Also Rises ( 1926 ) A Farewell to Arms ( 1929 ) To Have and Have Not ( 1937 ) For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1940 ) Across the River and into the Trees ( 1950 ) The Old Man and the Sea ( 1952 ) Non-fiction Death in the Afternoon ( 1932 ) Green Hills of Africa ( 1935 ) Posthumous A Moveable Feast ( 1964 ) Islands in the Stream ( 1970 ) The Dangerous Summer ( 1985 ) The Garden of Eden ( 1986 ) True at First Light ( 1999 ) Under Kilimanjaro ( 2005 ) Short stories `` Indian Camp '' ( 1925 ) `` The Doctor and the Doctor 's Wife '' ( 1925 ) `` The End of Something '' ( 1925 ) `` The Three - Day Blow '' ( 1925 ) `` The Battler '' ( 1925 ) `` A Very Short Story '' ( 1925 ) `` Soldier 's Home '' ( 1925 ) `` The Revolutionist '' ( 1925 ) `` Mr. and Mrs. Elliot '' ( 1925 ) `` Cat in the Rain '' ( 1925 ) `` Out of Season '' ( 1925 ) `` Cross Country Snow '' ( 1925 ) `` My Old Man '' ( 1925 ) `` Big Two - Hearted River '' ( 1925 ) `` A Clean, Well - Lighted Place '' ( 1926 ) `` A Canary for One '' ( 1926 ) `` Fifty Grand '' ( 1927 ) `` Hills Like White Elephants '' ( 1927 ) `` The Killers '' ( 1927 ) `` The Undefeated '' ( 1927 ) `` Che Ti Dice La Patria ? '' ( 1927 ) `` In Another Country '' ( 1927 ) `` On the Quai at Smyrna '' ( 1930 ) `` Fathers and Sons '' ( 1932 ) `` A Day 's Wait '' ( 1933 ) `` The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio '' ( 1933 ) `` A Way You 'll Never Be '' ( 1933 ) `` The Snows of Kilimanjaro '' ( 1936 ) `` The Capital of the World '' ( 1936 ) `` The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber '' ( 1936 ) Short story collections Three Stories and Ten Poems ( 1923 ) In Our Time ( 1925 ) Men Without Women ( 1927 ) Winner Take Nothing ( 1933 ) The Fifth Column and the First Forty - Nine Stories ( 1938 ) The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1961 ) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War ( 1969 ) The Nick Adams Stories ( 1972 ) The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway ( 1987 ) Ernest Hemingway : The Collected Stories ( 1995 ) Story fragments `` On Writing '' Poetry 88 Poems ( 1979 ) Complete Poems Letters and journalism Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917 -- 1961 ( 1981 ) Dateline : Toronto ( 1985 ) The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway ( 2011 ) Adaptations The Sun Also Rises 1957 film 1984 film Opera The Select ( The Sun Also Rises ) Ballet `` The Killers '' 1946 film 1956 film 1964 film Bukowski short story A Farewell to Arms 1932 film 1957 film 1966 TV series To Have and Have Not 1944 film The Breaking Point ( 1950 ) The Gun Runners ( 1958 ) Captain Khorshid ( 1987 ) For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 film 1965 TV series Metallica song The Old Man and the Sea 1958 film 1990 miniseries 1999 film Other film adaptations The Macomber Affair ( 1947 ) The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ) Hemingway 's Adventures of a Young Man ( 1962 ) Islands in the Stream ( 1977 ) See also Nick Adams Michigan cottage Idaho house Key West home Hotel Ambos Mundos, Havana home Finca Vigía, Cuba home Pilar ( boat ) The Spanish Earth ( 1937 film ) Bacall to Arms ( 1946 cartoon ) Hello Hemingway ( 1990 film ) In Love and War ( 1996 film ) Hemingway & Gellhorn ( 2012 film ) Cooper & Hemingway : The True Gen ( 2013 documentary ) Papa : Hemingway in Cuba ( 2015 film ) Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award Kennedy Library Hemingway collection Family Elizabeth Hadley Richardson ( first wife ) Jack Hemingway ( son ) Pauline Pfeiffer ( second wife ) Patrick Hemingway ( son ) Gregory Hemingway ( son ) Martha Gellhorn ( third wife ) Mary Welsh Hemingway ( fourth wife ) Grace Hall Hemingway ( mother ) Leicester Hemingway ( brother ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=To_Have_and_Have_Not&oldid=777912019 '' Categories : 1937 American novels Books by Ernest Hemingway Novels by Ernest Hemingway Charles Scribner 's Sons books Novels set in Florida Novels set in Cuba American crime novels American novels adapted into films Hidden categories : Pages to import images to Wikidata Talk Contents About Wikipedia Беларуская Deutsch Español Français Italiano Lietuvių Nederlands ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Polski Русский Slovenčina Svenska Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 30 April 2017, at 01 : 43. 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Question: where does to have and have not take place
Answer: Key West, Florida