Ernest Hemingway
A Biography
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · September 11, 2018
Incorporating fascinating new research, Mary Dearborn’s revelatory investigation of Hemingway’s life and work substantially deepens our understanding of the artist and the man.
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- Who it’s for
- A layered portrait of Hemingway’s artistry and private complexity, informed by newly used research.
- Themes
- Hemingway's life and work, Personal struggles, Influence on fiction
- Genres
- Writers' Lives, 20th-Century America
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Incorporating fascinating new research, Mary Dearborn’s revelatory investigation of Hemingway’s life and work substantially deepens our understanding of the artist and the man. A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of the Year The “most fully faceted portrait of Hemingway now available” (The Washington Post) draws on a wide array of never-before-used material, resulting in the most nuanced biography to date of this complex, enigmatic artist.
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Considered in his time the greatest living American writer, Hemingway was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize whose personal demons undid him in the end, and whose novels and stories have influenced the writing of fiction for generations after his death.
The Man and Work
A layered portrait of Hemingway’s artistry and private complexity, informed by newly used research.
Come here for
- A fresh perspective on a writer whose work shaped generations of fiction.
- A biography that considers both the artist and the man.
Expect
- A nuanced portrait built from previously unused material.
Where it sits
| Writers' Lives | 100% |
|---|---|
| 20th-Century America | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Writers' Lives
- Adventurers & Explorers
- 20th-Century America
- Authors
- Mary Dearborn
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- September 11, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Hemingway's life and work · Personal struggles · Influence on fiction
- Reading lane
- Writers' Lives