Ernest Hemingway - by Mary Dearborn (Paperback)

About the Book

Dearborn's biography of Hemingway explores the causes of his suicide, and deepens our understanding of the man, the artist, the self-created larger-than-life force who became Ernest Hemingway. We see the development of his writing; his emergence as a startlingly contemporary figure-- not least in gender experimentation and sexual role-playing. And his four marriages are examined as reflections of how he saw himself.

Book Synopsis

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.

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.

Review Quotes

Acclaim for Mary V. Dearborn's ERNEST HEMINGWAY

"The most fully faceted portrait of Hemingway now available." --The Washington Post

"A fresh perspective. . . . Keenly dispassionate, coolly discerning. . . . A kind of extended autopsy, not only of Hemingway's life, but his reputations as a model of American virility and as an enduring literary figure." --USA Today

"Perceptive and tough-minded. . . . Dearborn skillfully covers an enormous range of rich material." --The New York Times Book Review

"Fresh. . . . Impeccably researched. . . . Hemingway fans will find something interesting on almost every page." --Houston Chronicle

"A compelling portrait. . . . Dearborn captures Hemingway in all of his extremes, the story of a hugely flawed and endlessly compelling human being producing enduring art." --Star Tribune

About the Author

MARY V. DEARBORN received a doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She is the author of Mistress of Modernsim, Mailer, Queen of Bohemia, The Happiest Man Alive, Love in the Promised Land, and Pocahontas's Daughters. She lives in Massachusetts.