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Remembering Ernest Hemingway
This volume collects thirteen extended interviews with eleven close friends of Ernest Hemingway, plus his sons Patrick and Gregory. His grand-daughter (and noted author) Lorian Hemingway provides an insightful foreword. Each interview is accompanied by one or more photographs from the period being discussed.
192 pages, Paperback
First published May 18, 1999
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October 22, 2009
I love Hemingway's works but don't know too much about the man. This was pretty decent - probably one of many books to read about him. Interviews with about a dozen people who knew him (and were still alive in the late 90s). Suggests in a couple places that Carlos Baker's biography is the definitive one, and Hotchner (who wrote another biography and also put out Hemingway's Selected Letters) was a backstabber. Includes interesting story about the gun that Hemingway used to kill himself which apparently hadn't been known to the public before - a couple of his friends in Idaho chopped it up, burned it, and buried it. A couple people doubted he really committed suicide. I hadn't been aware that his father also committed suicide, so with his niece (Mariel?) that makes 3 generations of Hemingways who committed suicide.
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