Ernest Hemingway, Mary V. Dearborn
Ernest Hemingway, Mary V. Dearborn
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Ernest Hemingway
A Biography

Author: Mary V. Dearborn

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 29 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017

Synopsis

A revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, considered in his time to be the greatest living American novelist and short-story writer, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Mary Dearborn's new biography gives the richest and most nuanced portrait to date of this complex, enigmatically unique American artist, whose same uncontrollable demons that inspired and drove him throughout his life undid him at the end, and whose seven novels and six-short story collections informed—and are still informing—fiction writing generations after his death.

About Mary V. Dearborn

Mary V. Dearborn received a doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam

Now that's a hefty tome. Better than the five volume Michael S. Reynolds biography. More psychological depth to her Hemingway, and more understanding of his gender dysphoria and head trauma. About the same on his writing, except she seems a little down on his work overall. It's great that she sees th......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

“You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.” -Gertrude Stein Besides being a phenomenally talented novelist and short story writer, Ernest Hemingway—along with contemporaries like Henry Miller and Norman Mailer—was the personification of American virility. But, as this biography......more

Goodreads review by Carol

This is not a review of Ms. Dearborn's new biography, which I'm sure is a very valuable piece of Hemingway scholarship. This is a response to Irish author John Banville's vicious take down of Hemingway in THE NATION, which was ostensibly a review of this undoubtedly fine biography. [URL not allowed]......more

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