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Ernest Hemingway: An Illustrated Biography
Ernest Hemingway An Illustrated Biography Author:David Sandison No admirer of Ernest Hemingway should be without this biography, fully illustrated with over 100 magnificent photographs. Here one can see Hemingway watching a bullfight, fishing in Key West, hunting in Tanganyika, looking over dead soldiers in Spain, engrossed in his writing, sailing with Martha Gellhorn, and talking with Fidel Castro. Hemingwa... more »y was not just one of the most influential writers of the century. He was also an ambulance driver in World War I, a journalist covering the Spanish Civil War, a big-game hunter and deep-sea fisherman, a soldier with the French Resistance during World War II, an adherent of both pre- and post-Revolutionary Cuba, a passionate lover, the husband of four extraordinary women, a romantic prone to depression, a suicide, and of course, a best selling novelist. His colorful life lends itself to a sumptuously illustrated treatment. In this brief, to-the-point biography, David Sandison reveals Hemingway as a complex character who was far more than the sum of his parts, and in the process illuminates both his writings and the age helped define.« less