HEMINGWAY LIST 2021

Ernest Hemingway wrote for the common person, so that anyone could understand his manifold adventures with ease. HEMINGWAY, a three-part, six-hour documentary film by and Lynn Novick, examines the visionary work and the turbulent life of , one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Interweaving his eventful biography — a life lived at the ultimately treacherous nexus of art, fame, and celebrity — with carefully selected excerpts from his iconic short stories, novels, and non-fiction, the series reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind the myth, and the art he created. This list compiles a selection of his canonical works, as well as biographies. Join the conversation at .org/hemingwayevents, learn more at pbsbooks.org/hemingway, or follow on social #HemingwayPBS.

BOOKS BY HEMINGWAY The Old Man and the Sea A Moveable Feast In Our Time This minimalistic 1953 Pulitzer Prize Published in 1964, this book examines << Ernest Hemingway winning novella describes the epic the glamorous happenings of creative This collection of short stories and struggle between a sun-weary Cuban minded gatherings in 1920’s Paris. The vignettes demonstrated Hemingway’s fisherman and a giant marlin as they story comes face to face with trademark knack for invoking a wide hash it out in the deep waters of the Gulf. Hemingway’s real-life interactions with spectrum of emotions through sparse It is often cited as the chief catalyst for writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, James and simple prose. The book, published Hemingway winning the 1954 Nobel Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. in 1925, was his literary debut. Prize in Literature. Green Hills of Africa HEMINGWAY BIOGRAPHIES This is Hemingway’s personal memoir of A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway: A Biography a picturesque safari across the This powerful treatise on love and war is << Mary V. Dearborn Serengeti. It offers a rare look into the considered to be one of the best This hefty tome is the most popular mindset of literature’s most famed big- American novels to have emerged from Hemingway biography to date and is also game hunter and his prescient qualms the aftermath of World War I. It tells the first Hemingway biography written with the end of the untamed wilds at the story of an American ambulance by a woman. the hands of men. driver posted on the Italian frontlines and his intense passion for a dazzling Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir To Have and Have Not English nurse. << A.E. Hotchner This book explores Hemingway’s sun- This unique account, penned by a soaked encounters with working men, The Sun Also Rises Hemingway confidante, reports on a 14- boaters, and black-market smugglers. It This formerly banned book, often year conversation that took place over explores character Harry Morgan’s regarded as Hemingway’s first literary trips from New York to Paris to Spain, to dramatic fall from grace at the onset of masterpiece, is a quintessential portrait fishing in Cuba, hunting in Idaho, and the Great Depression. of the Lost Generation, detailing the running with the bulls in Pamplona. wanderings of Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley through roaring Parisian The Hemingway Stories The Man Who Wasn’t There: A Life of nightlife and savage Spanish bullfights. Curated by award-winning author Ernest Hemingway Tobias Wolff, this collection of << Richard Bradford Hemingway’s best short stories For Whom the Bell Tolls This recent examination of Hemingway’s includes: “The Short and Happy Life of This is Hemingway’s timeless tale of chameleonic nature is a must read for Francis Macomber,” “Up in Michigan,” ardent love and antifascist guerrilla the serious Hemingway fan. warfare in the jagged peaks of Spain tells “Indian Camp,” and “The Snows of of bravery, loyalty, love, and the death of Kilimanjaro.” an ideal at the final stand of El Sordo during the Spanish Civil War.