| 1 | Paul-Marie |
Verlaine | A French poet associated with the symbolist movement and the decadent movement. |
| | Ernest |
Hemingway | Narrator, author, and protagonist. AKA: Tatie. |
| 2 | Gertrude |
Steub | American novelist, poet, and art collector. Hemingway's close friend. |
| | Ford Madox |
Ford | An English novelist. |
| 3 | Aldous |
Huxley | One of the writers. |
| | D.H. |
Lawrence | One of the writers. |
| | Sylvia |
Beach | An American bookseller. |
| | Marie Belloc |
Lowndes | A prolific English novelist. |
| | Janet |
Planner | The woman who first gave Hemingway Simeon's book to read. |
| | Ronald |
Firbank | One of the famous writers. |
| | Scott |
Fitzgerald | One of the famous writers. |
| | Sherwood |
Anderson | American novelist and story writer. One of Miss Stein's loyal supporters. |
| | James |
Joyce | Irish novelist and poet. |
| | Ezra |
Poud | The American poet that Miss Stein dislikes. |
| | Mike |
Ney | A French general during the Napoleonic era. |
| | F. Puss |
| Cat of Hemingay's son. |
| 4 | Valery |
Larbaud | A French writer and poet. |
| | Henry |
James | An American-British author. |
| 5 | Henri |
Quatre | Henry IV of France. |
| | Sisley |
| A painter. |
| 6 | Chevre |
D'or | Horse of Hemingway's wife. |
| | China |
| Hemingway's best friend. An Irish soldier. AKA: Eric Dorman-Smith. |
| | Jim |
Gamble | A Red Cross volunteer. Hemingway's close friend. |
| | Hadley |
Richardson | Ernest Hemingway's wife. |
| | Nora |
Joyce | James Joyce's wife. |
| | Giorgio |
| James Joyce's child. |
| | Lucia Joyce |
| James Joyce's child. |
| 7 | Mike |
Ward | Hemingway's friend from the travel desk in the Guaranty Trust. |
| | Linart |
| The great Belgian motorcycle champion. AKA: The Sioux. |
| | Ganay |
| The great rider. |
| 8 | Cezanne |
| A painter. |
| | Fargue |
| French poet and essayist. |
| | Wedderkop |
| German writer and editor. |
| | George |
| Wedderkop's companion. |
| | Edward |
O'Brien | One of Hemingway's friends. |
| 9 | Paul |
Fort | The last Principal Poet at Closerie de Lilas. |
| | Blaise |
Cendrars | The only poet that Hemingway saw in Closerie de Lilas. |
| | Emile |
| One of the waiters. |
| | Jean |
| One of the waiters. |
| | Aleister |
Crowley | The diabolist. |
| 10 |
Bumby | |
Hadley and Hemingway's son. |
| 11 |
Mr. | Lavigne |
The restaurant proprietor. |
| | Harold |
Strearns | A known critic—Hemingway's acquaintance. |
| | Pascin |
| Hemingway's painter friend. |
| 12 |
Dorothy | Pound |
Ezra's wife. |
| | Wyndham |
Lewis | The founder of Vorticism. Ezra's friend. |
| | Natalie |
Barney | Ezra's co-founder of Bel Esprit. |
| | Remy |
de Gourmont | A French poet. |
| | T.S. |
Eliot | A novelist. AKA: Major Eliot. |
| | Major |
Douglas | An economist. |
| 13 |
Picasso | |
A Spanish painter. |
| 14 |
Ernest | Walsh |
The poet in Ezrams Studio. |
| | Rudyard |
Kipling | A journalist and novelist. |
| | Scofield |
Thayer | A magazine editor. |
| 15 |
Katherine | Mansfield |
A good short story writer. |
| | Evan |
Shipman | A poet. One of Hemingway's friends. |
| | Andre |
| One of the waiters. |
| 16 |
Ralph Cheever | Dunning |
A poet who smoked opium and forgot to eat. |
| 17 |
Scott | Fitzgerald |
American novelist. |
| | Dunc |
Chaplin | A famous pitcher. |
| | George Horace |
Lorimer | American journalist and editor. |
| | Maxwell |
Perkins | Hemingway's editor. |