Hemingway A Biography

by Meyers, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780306808906
• ISBN10: 0306808900
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-07
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. InThe Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea,and numerous short stories, he explored such universal themes as stoicism in adversity, as well as our futile struggles against nature and mortality.This evocative, sympathetic biography illuminates the events that informed Hemingway's vigorous life: an accident-prone youth and early rivalry with his father; his experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II; his stormy relationships with writers and women; his sudden fame, slow decline, and suicide. Based on previously unavailable information and exclusive interviews,Hemingwayenriches anyone's understanding and appreciation of America's most important twentieth-century writer.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Meyers

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Maps
Acknowledgments
A Midwestern Boyhood, 1899-1917	p. 1
Kansas City and the War, 1917-1918	p. 22
Hadley, 1919-1921	p. 45
Paris, 1922-1923	p. 63
European Reporter, 1922-1923	p. 91
A Writer's Life, 1924	p. 125
Duff Twysden and Scott Fitzgerald, 1925	p. 152
Pauline, 1926	p. 172
Accidents, 1927-1928	p. 194
Key West, 1928-1929	p. 205
The Public Image, 1930-1932	p. 222
Jane Mason, 1932-1936	p. 242
Africa, 1933-1934	p. 257
In the Caribbean, 1934-1936	p. 280
Martha and the Spanish War, 1936-1938	p. 298
The End of Something, 1939-1940	p. 326
Finca Vigia and China, 1940-1942	p. 348
Our Man in Havana, 1942-1944	p. 367
To the Siegfried Line, 1944-1945	p. 389
Mary, 1945-1948	p. 418
Adriana, 1948-1950	p. 438
The Lost Hero: Across the River and into the Trees, 1950	p. 453
Death in the Family, 1951-1953	p. 478
Second Safari, 1953-1954	p. 497
The Dangerous Summers, 1955-1959	p. 511
The Mayo Clinic, 1960-1961	p. 538
Suicide and Aftermath	p. 555
Accidents and Injuries	p. 573
Trips Abroad	p. 577
Notes	p. 579
Select Bibliography	p. 623
Index	p. 625
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