Apartment in Ernest Hemingway's old NYC building can be yours if you have $27,500/mo.

Ernest Hemingway lived for a spell in a 900-square foot New York East Side apartment in 1959. Nothing much of literary note came of that period, but that doesn't stop realtors from pumping up the fact that Papa once lived nearby.

The building, located at 1 East 62nd Street, is listing an 1,865-square foot, 2-bedroom/2-bath duplex apartment for a tidy rental sum of $27,500/mo, and casually drops in among the details that Hemingway was once a resident in the building.

The listed apartment wasn't Hemingway's of course, and the building has undoubtedly been vastly updated since his time there 55-years ago. But, as the folks at Curbed mention, passing mentions about Hemingway are quite modest compared to what Sotheby's pulled in 2012 when listing a similar apartment in the same building.

Then, Sotheby's claimed, Hemingway wrote The Snows of Kilimanjaro while living there, despite the fact that he published the story over two decades earlier.

Pssh. I heard he wrote The Grapes of Wrath and half of Maya Angelou's poetry while living there, too.