Hemingway: Visual Biography

A Life in Pictures: Hemingway

“A gentleman, a hunter, a deep-sea fisherman, a lover of food and fine wine, a man of precise words and my grandfather. ‘Papa’ died before I was born, yet my whole life has been a reflection of how creative and powerful my grandfather’s legacy is. He touched the lives of millions around the world. He changed the way American writers write. He was an adventurer who still inspires us today.” — Mariel Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway left an immense body of work imbued with his love of travel and a restless lust for life that constantly led him on to new places, women and stories. Marlene Dietrich described him as a man who “found time to do the things most men only dream about.” His legacy, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and of course The Old Man and the Sea, are novels that have shaped our individual and collective consciousness and left an indelible mark on American literature.

This book, with over 300 hitherto unpublished photos and documents from the Hemingway Collection in Boston, gives an intimate glimpse into this extraordinary man.

Author and actor MARIEL HEMINGWAY, who portrayed the unforgettable Tracy in Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979), is the great writer’s granddaughter. She grew up in Ketchum (Idaho), where Ernest Hemingway regularly stayed to write, and where he is buried. In this book, she pays tribute to her distinguished grandfather for the first time.

BORIS VEJDOVSKY, a professor of American literature and culture at the University of Lausanne, and a member of the Hemingway Society, organized its 14th international conference in July 2010, bringing together 250 specialists, writers and aficionados from all over the world to celebrate the work of “Papa.” More than 300 carefully selected photographs illustrate Hemingway's life.

From the Publisher: Ernest, hunter in the grass, 1906. Proud of his trout, in a pose that would become familiar. Horton Bay, around 1919. His passport photo, 1921. In Teruel, December 1937, by Robert Capa. Ernest was becoming a recognizable face of the war. Ernest and Sylvia Beach in front of Shakespeare and Company, a bookshop then situated at 12 rue de l’Odéon. The wound, one of the many he inflicted on himself in his life, was due to a ceiling he had brought down on his head by confusing the light cord with the toilet flusher. Paris, 1928. Ernest writing in the camp; Earl Theisen’s photos for Look would seal the Hemingway image.

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