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Letters and Lovers A PBS docuseries about Ernest Hemingway brings the literary icon to life through his correspondence with his four wives. Robert Rorke Hemingway, the new documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, offers startling insights into the conflicted soul behind the man's man of American letters. That perspective comes in part from the letters and diaries of his four wives: Hadley Richardson (1921–27), Pauline Pfeiffer (1927–40), Martha Gellhorn (1940–45) and Mary Welsh (1946–61). "Being able to hear their own authentic voices and their conversations with him in their own w...

Hemingway takes in the genius, the agony, and the sins of this defining American artist. Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson, said there were “so many sides to him he defied geometry.” A man’s man who liked to be called “Catherine” in bed, an apostle of frankness who often lied about his feats, a libertarian who spied for Stalin, he left us with a biography as overstuffed as his work was lean. He was an object of fascination like no other writer, and he receives his due in the superb new documentary Hemingway, a three-part, six-hour film for PBS directed by Ken Burns...

Hemingway, a documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, premiered on PBS April 5. Its three parts, each approximately two hours, are now available online. It is eminently worth watching. Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was one of the most important American novelists and short-story writers of the 20th century, and a literary figure with an immense global influence and following. He is best known for his three most significant novels, The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), as well as innumerable and often scintillating short stories a...

Hemingway penetrates a formidable myth to make room for something true. Arts and Culture Myths, received ideas, and ancient controversies tend to obscure the work of a great writer, making it almost superfluous to the legend. This is especially true of Ernest Hemingway, whose myth has proved particularly seductive to those who make movies and commercial television. Hemingway’s work is understood almost entirely in biographical terms, as an extension of his personal virtues or, less charitably, as a product of his pathologies. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s mission, in their three-part, six-...

Hemingway's finest The 10 best Ernest Hemingway books – from The Old Man and the Sea to The Sun Also Rises Clara Gaspar Updated: Apr 6 2021, 11:10 ET HEMINGWAY was a prolific writer and his works are among the most highly regarded in the American literary tradition. From tales of war to family politics to existentialist crises - here are Hemingway's must-read books... 11 Hemingway's works are among the most highly regarded in the American literary traditionCredit: The LIFE Picture Collection via What are Ernest Hemingway's best books? The Old Man and the Sea 11 This is a short story writt...