Hemingway: The 1930s through the Final Years

by Michael S. Reynolds

Published
to coincide with the major release of HBO’s
upcoming film Hemingway and
Gellhorn,
starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen.

Michael Reynolds was the
supreme biographer of Ernest Hemingway. HBO’s film concentrates on Hemingway’s
years with his third wife, the adventurous journalist Martha Gellhorn. This
book brings together Reynolds’s Hemingway: The 1930s and Hemingway: The Final Years.

Genres: Biography

797 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 16, 2012

About the author

As part of Reynolds' lifelong research, aided by his wife and editor Ann, he followed Hemingway's travels through Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Key West, Fla., and visited the novelist's childhood home in Oak Park, Ill.

Reynolds served on the editorial board of the Hemingway Review. He also helped establish the Hemingway Society, which presents the annual Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for the best first work of fiction published in the U.S., and organized its biannual conferences for Hemingway scholars. The professor was particularly delighted with the 1996 conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, one of Hemingway's familiar stomping grounds, which was attended by five friends of the late author.

Internationally respected, Reynolds was consulted in 1992 about 20 newly discovered newspaper stories allegedly written by Hemingway for the Toronto Star in the early 1920s. Some of the articles, which Reynolds and other scholars authenticated, were found in the Hemingway section of the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, the world's leading center of Hemingway studies.[More...]

Reviews

[Terry Cornell · Rating 4 out of 5]

I first became interested in this book after viewing the film 'Hemingway and Gellhorn'. The writer's well researched material makes the reader feel as if he is not only part of Papa's entourage in his exploits, but a fly on the wall during his more intimate challenges. The reader's journey is more fulfilling by meeting other noted celebrities and friends of Hemingway, and getting a fuller understanding of world wide current events and their effect on Hemingway and his work. Reynolds also wrote of Hemingway's Paris years in another book. I hope to read it soon!

[Peggy Jo Donahue · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Fantastic Read

Following Hemingway from the 1930s to his death, this book explains Hemingway in ways I never understood before. Bravo and more.

[Michael Hemingwayhero · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent bio of Hemingway, the man who, on the page, strived to leave things out. To let go.