Hemingway biography dearborn

The first full biography in over fifteen years, the first written by a woman, based on new sources including materials recently released from Cuba.

“Drawn partly from new-found files and letters, Mary Dearborn has written the first biography of Ernest Hemingway from a woman’s point of view.

Fascinated by her opposite, she seeks, with deep empathy, a balance between masculine/feminine qualities in a man, at times, possessed by demons. What emerges is a different Hemingway than we’ve ever encountered before.” -- Oliver Stone, director

"Dearborn (Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim) revisits one of America's most popular writers with insight and finesse, in this rich, detailed biography of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961).

Hemingway came to fame in 1920s Paris amid the fabled community of American expatriates that also included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. Hi