How Esquire Built Esquire Classic, a New Standalone Digital Archive

Esquire’s first issue was published in the autumn of 1933 featuring a dispatch from Cuba by Ernest Hemingway. That story was the first of Hemingway’s many contributions to Esquire: He ultimately wrote 26 pieces for the magazine during the 1930s, including one of his most well-known stories, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”