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The Hemingway Log: A Chronology of His Life and Times
Few if any writers have made a mark as broad and deep as Ernest Hemingway, whose life and work—and even image—continue to permeate American culture more than a half-century after his death in 1961. And never has there been a chronology of the writer's life and times as comprehensive, detailed, and useful as The Hemingway Log .
For more than a dozen years, Brewster Chamberlin "has been compiling and wonderfully annotating and continuously updating what amounts to almost a daybook calendar of Hemingway's life," as author Paul Hendrickson noted in his acclaimed Hemingway's Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost . At long last available to readers and scholars, this chronology extends from the birth of Mark Twain (whose Huckleberry Finn , Hemingway said, was the source of all modern American literature) to the 2013 publication of the second volume (of a projected seventeen) of the Hemingway letters. Throughout, the events and dates that had any influence whatsoever on the writer are detailed day by day. Who won the Nobel Prize in literature each year, for instance, or the Pulitzer? What works of poetry, fiction, or drama were published? What was happening in the world and in the country, and how did it relate to Hemingway? Within this clarifying context, the chronological facts of the writer's own life and work literary production and publishing; travels and households; activities and relevant occurrences; relations with family, friends, lovers, and enemies.
Drawing on biographies, memoirs, and various Hemingway collections and websites, as well as the full range of original sources such as letters, fishing logs, notebooks, and manuscripts, The Hemingway Log presents the most extensive and accurate chronology of Hemingway's life and times—and in the process clears up many of the inconsistencies and factual errors that riddle accounts of the writer's life and work. Any future scholar of Hemingway will find the book not just invaluable but absolutely necessary, and any serious reader of Hemingway will find it irresistible.
For more than a dozen years, Brewster Chamberlin "has been compiling and wonderfully annotating and continuously updating what amounts to almost a daybook calendar of Hemingway's life," as author Paul Hendrickson noted in his acclaimed Hemingway's Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost . At long last available to readers and scholars, this chronology extends from the birth of Mark Twain (whose Huckleberry Finn , Hemingway said, was the source of all modern American literature) to the 2013 publication of the second volume (of a projected seventeen) of the Hemingway letters. Throughout, the events and dates that had any influence whatsoever on the writer are detailed day by day. Who won the Nobel Prize in literature each year, for instance, or the Pulitzer? What works of poetry, fiction, or drama were published? What was happening in the world and in the country, and how did it relate to Hemingway? Within this clarifying context, the chronological facts of the writer's own life and work literary production and publishing; travels and households; activities and relevant occurrences; relations with family, friends, lovers, and enemies.
Drawing on biographies, memoirs, and various Hemingway collections and websites, as well as the full range of original sources such as letters, fishing logs, notebooks, and manuscripts, The Hemingway Log presents the most extensive and accurate chronology of Hemingway's life and times—and in the process clears up many of the inconsistencies and factual errors that riddle accounts of the writer's life and work. Any future scholar of Hemingway will find the book not just invaluable but absolutely necessary, and any serious reader of Hemingway will find it irresistible.
398 pages, Hardcover
First published February 6, 2015
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September 12, 2016
bought this book about Hemingway and just finished reading it. loved all the tie-ins about what else was going on in the world during the time of Hemingway's life. I find it interesting to think that his goal was to just write and not have any other means of support for his wives and children. of course, it was a great help to have a super monied second wife and her family to help with finances. have to hand it to wife number three to end their marriage the quickest. cannot believe how casual Pauline and Ernest were with the upbringing of their sons. they were left behind the majority of the time with nannies and other family members. this seems rather cruel in today's times. his decline seemed to be rather quick. hard for remaining family members to pick up the pieces from his suicide.
February 8, 2016
Author, Brewster Chamberlin's, "... daybook calendar of Hemingway's life," consists of 395 pages and 926 footnotes on, not only Hemingway's life and times, but also notable information on his four wives, their children, friends and acquaintances during his 61 years. It was especially fascinating to learn about how seemingly casual his transportation between Key West and Cuba was. There were routine ferry boat rides, occasionally seaplane excursions, and some times he traveled via his beloved sailboat, Pilar. This book will significantly influence and inform my future reading of Hemingway's stories.
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