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Ross essentially made herself a fly on the wall during two days that Hemingway and his fourth wife, Mary, spent in New York City while en route to Venice, and she wrote down everything the great man said and did. Hemingway hit the airport bar within minutes of landing, proceeded (several shots of bourbon later) to his suite at the Sherry-Netherland, summoned his old friend Marlene Dietrich for caviar, champagne, and war stories, bought a winter coat at Abercrombie at his wife's insistence, looked at pictures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art while pulling on a flask, met with his publisher Charles Scribner, and ran into friends. And he talked ceaselessly, sometimes brilliantly, sometimes foolishly in a kind of pseudo-Native American dialect (dropping articles) about life and art, baseball and women, hunting and horseracing, writing and competing ("I beat Mr. Turgenev," he declares at one point. "Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant"). Whatever one feels about Hemingway, one has to admire Ross's extraordinary success in bringing the man to life in this slim volume. Her Portrait of Hemingway is worth any hundreds of chapters of standard, fact-filled biography in conveying a tangible, immediate sense of what "Papa" was really like. --David Laskin
Hemingway Resource Center Sunday Telegraph London Standard Book Description
Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and numerous short stories, he explored such universal themes as stoicism in adversity, as well as our futile struggles against nature and mortality. This evocative, sympathetic biography illuminates the events that informed Hemingway's vigorous life: an accident-prone youth and early rivalry with his father; his experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II; his stormy relationships with writers and women; his sudden fame, slow decline, and suicide. Based on previously unavailable information and exclusive interviews, Hemingway enriches anyone's understanding and appreciation of America's most important twentieth-century writer.
This is a reprint of Hotchner's classic memoir about his times with Hemingway. In the late 1960's Hemingway's widow Mary Welsh sued Hotchner to try to prevent him from publishing this book, claiming that he had no right to the taped conversations he had made with Hemingway. She lost the suit and the book was a bestseller. Hotchner shows Hemingway at the peak of his celebrity in this well written, entertaining book. A must have for the Hemingway fan!
This book took many Hemingway fans and sympathetic critics by suprise in asserting that Hemingway was a latent homosexual, a personality trait stemming from his mother's practice of dressing he and his sister Marcelline as girls. Lynn attributes much of Hemingway's sensitivity to his struggle to exorcise his homosexual demons. This is a detailed and well researched book, with a different approach to Hemingway and his work.
Along with Lynn's Hemingway, Carlos Baker's landmark Ernest Hemingway, A Life Story and Jeffrey Meyers' Hemingway, A Biography, Mellow's book can be considered one of the best single volume treatments of Papa's life. Meticulously researched and brimming with new material, Mellow's book presents Hemingway in all his brilliance, but lets us see his warts as well. Mellow also concentrates on Hemingway the journalist, an area often overlooked by other biographies, arguing that Hemingway ranks among America's great newspapermen. This book belongs on every Hemingway fan's shelf.
Michael Reynolds' Five-Volume Biography
Revealing the early forces that helped shape Ernest Hemingway as one of America's greatest writers--his father's self-destructive battle with depression and his mother's fierce independence and spiritualism--this volume of Michael Reynold's extensive biography brings young Ernest through World War I and his romantic involvement with nurse Agnes Von Kurowsky.
Scott Donaldson Choice Times Literary Supplement
Library Journal starred
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The followup to Reynolds' American Homecoming, this book charts Hemingway's life from 1929 to 1939. Hemingway started the decade with a new wife and ended it with a new wife; in between we see him struggle with his writing after the great successes of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell To Arms in the 1920's. He puts out his bullfighting and big-game hunting non-fiction books Death In The Afternoon and Green Hills Of Africa, a collection of stories titled Winner Take Nothing, and his hodge-podge novel To Have And Have Not, all to mixed reviews. The most important event for Hemingway's career during the '30's was the Spanish Civil War...his experiences covering the war as a journalist provided him the material for his most successful novel For Whom The Bell Tolls, published in 1940. Once again Reynolds shows that his biography-in-progress of Hemingway just may be the best of them all.
From Kirkus Reviews
The Hemingway Resource Center Amazon.com
Book Description Synopsis Packed with unforgettable exchanges about writing, fame, and friendship, the correspondence between Ernest Hemingway and his editor, Maxwell Perkins, documents a legendary career and illuminates a fascinating era of literary history.
The Hemingway Resource
Center Books for Writers, Editor's Recommended Book What can you say about an editor who discovered talents like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe And passed along the idea for The Yearling to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings? You'd have to say he was Max Perkins, the one-man literary salon who made Charles Scribner's Sons the essential American publisher of the early 20th century. Perkins chose to be the one whom words danced around--rather than composing any himself--and this award-winning biography is most fascinating not because of Perkins's life per se, but because of the figures that danced around him. Reading this book is like reading half a dozen literary biographies all at once.
This book describes in detail the slippery friendship of two of literature's greatest stars. Brucolli, who wrote what many consider the definitive biography of Fitzgerald, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur, uses previously unavailable correspondence between Papa and Scott to help set straight some of the anecdotal myths surrounding the two writers. Fitzgerald's role in helping jumpstart Hemingway's career and his astute criticism of Hemingway's works in progress, particularly some of his editorial ideas for The Sun Also Rises, are all fascinating to read. Also includes a nice chronology of Fitzgerald's and Hemingway's friendship.
"There are at least four diverse accounts of how Hemingway quit theStar...The best-known version...now a newsroom legend, has it that he wrote along tirade against Hindmarsh, venting his spleen on page after page of copy paper, which he then carefully pasted together and pinned to the bulletin board. This poison-pen letter of resignation is said to have been sixteen feet long, so long that it dragged and curled up on the floor below the bulletin board. Depending on which version is being told, the anti-Hindmarsh rant stayed on the board for anywhere from one to three days. Although Hindmarsh most certainly passed the notice board on his way in and out of the newsroom, he apparently refused to acknowledge it." My
Brother, Ernest Hemingway, Leicester
Hemingway, hardcover, $17.56...you save $4.39! This is the book that inspired the major motion picture, In Love and War, starring Sandra Bullock and Chris O'donnell! It sorts out the facts behind A Farewell to Arms, contains the diary of Agnes Von Kurowsky, the American nurse with whom Hemingway fell in love in a Milan hospital in 1918; it also contains 52 letters to him and 14 of his letters to his family. Villard was one of Hemingway's fellow patients, giving a firsthand account of what Hemingway was like while being treated for his war wounds in Italy. A great resource.
Many books have been written about Ernest Hemingway, but no book has focused on the women he knew and loved and sometimes hated-his mother, who was the lifelong recipient of his invective; his wives; and others who captivated him. Hemingway married four times, each time to a fascinating person: Hadley Richardson, who shared the Paris years and one son; Pauline Pfeiffer, the mother of two more sons, who created a haven in Key West; Martha Gellhorn, a writer and acclaimed journalist; and Mary Welsh, a Time correspondent. Drawing on letters and interviews with the living women, Bernice Kert sheds new light on the Hemingway heroines and their real-life prototypes.
Book Description Hemingway's Paris and Pamplona is a new look at Hemingway's best of times. Robert F. Burgess, who met Ernest Hemingway at his last Pamplona fiesta, describes that meeting and how close friends related to Hemingway there. Through recently published letters and memoirs we learn new facts about Hemingway's early years in Paris and Pamplona with an intimate look at the real life characters of The Sun Also Rises. Burgess then returns to Hemingway's favorite haunts in Paris and Spain today in search of Papa's literary legacy. Following descriptions in The Sun Also Rises, he buses and backpacks into the Spanish Pyrenees, where he uncovers evidence that the Nobel Prize winning Hemingway wrote more fact than fiction into his novels. These facts and those individuals who are carrying on his legacy reveal why Hemingway will always be with us. Be sure to check out the author's own website by clicking here! Some great extra information about this and many of his other books.
Criticism
If you are studying Hemingway's work this is the one book that is truly indispensible. First published in 1952, Baker continued to update his work until the last edition appeared in 1972. Baker has long been the grandfather of Hemingway studies, publishing in 1969 the biography, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, against which all others will be judged. The Writer As Artist provides some biographical information as well as insightful and in-depth analysis of all of Hemingway's work, including the posthumous books (except The Garden of Eden). Baker writes in his introduction..."These pages tell, instead, another story of at least equal interest to any who are seriously concerned about the course of modern literature, or about the relation, in our generation, of the artist to society. This is the story of what Hemingway was able to perform--unarmed but for the good writer's indispensible weapons of brain and heart--during the forty years of his life as an artist, 1921-1961."
In a review for Psychoanalytic Books Jeffrey Berman touts this volume as "a scholarly book that reads like a detective mystery.... This book offers for the first time a theoretically sophisticated and comprehensive study of Hemingway's gender instability, erotic attachment to hair, narcissism, latent homosexuality, castration anxiety, and split toward women.... Hemingway's Fetishism is an extraordinary book ... written with verve, wit, and good humor.... It is doubtful that any study published in the next few years on Hemingway will be as insightful and controversial as this one."
This wonderful book covers a wide range of Hemingway topics, from analysis of his early short stories to discussions of his posthumously published works, with plenty in between. The purchase price can be justified by one essay on The Old Man and the Sea by Bickford Sylvester. In it Sylvester shows how Hemingway puts his famous "ice-berg theory" to work in the short masterpiece about the Cuban fisherman Santiago, answering questions as to why Hemingway chose 84 days as the number that Santiago had gone without a fish, or how a mere boy like Manolin could handle the heavy coils of fishing line that Santiago carried, or how despite turtle spearing for years Santiago still has keen eyesight. Sylvester's examination gives creedance to Hemingway's quote: "In writing I have moved through arithmetic, through plane geometry and algebra, and now I am in calculus." Truly fascinating reading, after which you won't be able to read Hemingway the same way again.
Hemingway For Beginners, Selkirk, Finklestein, Acevedo, paperback, $8.95...you save $1.00! This neat little book is a must for those looking to get a basic working knowledge of Hemingway's life and work. Using witty dialogue and wonderful cartoons, the authors break down Hemingway's style and intentions into understandable language. A pleasure to read and browse through! Modern Critical Views: Ernest Hemingway, Harold Bloom, Editor, hardcover, $34.95
New Critical Approaches To The Short STories of Ernest Hemingway, Jackson J. Benson, Editor, paperback, $26.95
Other Hemingway Related Books
The Hemingway Resource Center Synopsis
Here's what the author has to say: "Experience Hemingway's world through his food & drink! Make your trip through Hemingway's world much more profound and delicious by creating and enjoying the foods and drinks that sustained both the writer and his characters. Coupled with their literary or biographical contexts, the more than 125 recipes truly bring Hemingway's epic life and literature alive for the reader. With recipes such as Roast Suckling Pig from Casa Botin in Madrid, the Roast Duckling from Harry's Bar in Venice, the Hemingway Daiquiri from El Floridita in Havana, Crabe Mexicaine from Prunier in Paris and even Fillet of Lion, The Hemingway Cookbook is steeped in the bravado, romance and artistry of Hemingway himself."
Any student of Hemingway needs this
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A great collection of interviews with Hemingway that spans his career. Hemingway offers insight into a wide range topics, the most interesting of which usually revolve around the writer's life. This guide includes seven unique walking tours of Paris's Left and Right Banks for the newest or the most seasoned traveler. It provides an intimate journey to major Parisian landmarks as well as out-of-the-way cafes, hotels, and residences immortalized by Hemingway and his friends. Maps and photographs.
I Killed Hemingway, William McCranor Henderson, paperback, $12.00 This clever and well written book pokes fun at the ever growing industry of Hemingway studies. Elliott McGuire is a worn out writer of vanity biographies and former golden boy of Hemingway studies who ghost writes the bio of one 93 year old Eric "Pappy" Markham. Pappy claims that Hemingway plagarized his work when they were friends in Paris back in the '20's. When Hemingway fails to acknowledge his debt to Pappy, and after subsequent slights by Hemingway, Pappy decides to kill him. What everyone thought was a suicide has now been revealed as a murder! McGuire writes the bio of Pappy and it becomes an instant bestseller, and Pappy becomes a media darling, gracing the covers of all the magazines and hitting the talk show circuit, doublecrossing McGuire in the process. What ensues is an often hilarious attempt by McGuire to exact his own sort of justice while he fights alcoholism, his publishers, his friends, his lovers and the always funny Pappy! You won't want this one to end.
From Kirkus: Simmons leaps from fat genre novels suspense/horror/sf fantasy) to fat mainstream historical suspense in retelling the story of Ernest Hemingway's submarine-chasing exploits off Cuba in 1942-43. As is often the case with the author's overplanned and hyperdetailed novels,this one boasts proliferating plots and subplots. At its center lolls the brawnily bravura Falstaffian bully/braggart Hemingway, who at age 43 lives with fourth wife Martha Gellhorn in their finca outside Havana, coasting on the great reviews of For Whom the Bell Tolls from two years earlier and editing his anthology Men at War; Hemingway is also overdrinking and trying to assemble a raggle-taggle spy group (or crook factory) in Havana to support his pursuit of Nazi subs with his famed fishing boat, Pilar, while falling under the spell of the FBI and IRS (who undermine his sanity, causing the paranoia that later leads him to suicide). And that barely scratches the surface. Simmons also takes on Hemingway's sense of "the-true gen''-that is, how things work: guns,boats, boxing, fishing-and rivals him at his own game by creating a smartly characterized narrator, FBI agent Joe Lucas, who reads no fiction, has never read a word of Hemingway, and outsmarts Papa on boats, boxing, guns, and the true gen of spycraft. Simmons claims that ninety-five percent of his book is "true," derived from FBI files. Regardless, though, what helps vastly is that utter pragmatist Joe Lucas, fatally ill, has only nine months to write the book, unburdened by any strivings for an artistic excellence he knows nothing about. Thus when Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman show up to talk about filming For Whom the Bell Tolls, Joe has only the vaguest idea of what's under discussion. Also on hand: foppish top spy Commander Ian Fleming, getting charged up for his James Bond novels. For a change, Papa never utters a syllable that rings false. Meantime, Simmons (Children of the Night, 1992, etc.) more than handily ladles out suspense, a German Mata Hari, and a steady stream of solemn bemusement. .(KIRKUS REVIEW,'99)
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