Ken Burns, Lynn Novick Create Perfect Hemingway Documentary Ken Burns and his team have helped put American history in context through documentaries on topics ranging from the Civil War and Vietnam to jazz and baseball. Their latest takes on one of America’s greatest and complicated writers. Clay S. Jenkinson, Editor-at-Large | April 18, 2021 Ernest Hemingway is one of our greatest writers, and Ken Burns is our greatest documentary filmmaker, so it is fitting that the latest film by Burns and his creative partner Lynn Novick is about the most influential American writer of the 20th century, who committed suicide on July 2, 1961. Hemingway wrote seven novels during his lifetime, six collections of short stories and two works of nonfiction. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was married four times, and there were plenty of other women, too. His greatest novels were