"The man. The myth. The writer revealed."
Hemingway
The visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Interweaving his eventful biography with carefully selected excerpts from his iconic short stories, novels, and non-fiction, the series reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind the myth, and the art he created.
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S1 E3 • 4/7/2021
The Blank Page (1944-1961)
Hemingway follows the Army as they advance through Europe. Afterwards, he tries to start a life with Mary Welsh, but is beset with tragedies. He publishes The Old Man and the Sea to acclaim but is overcome by his declining mental condition.
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Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)
Jeff Daniels
Ernest Hemingway (voice)
Michael Kitakis
Himself – Writer
Edna O'Brien
Herself – Writer
Tobias Wolff
Self
Mary Dearborn
Herself – Biographer
Abraham Verghese
Himself – Writer
Mary Karr
Herself – Writer
Susan Beegel
Herself – Literary Scholar
Marc Dudley
Himself – Literary Scholar
Mario Vargas Llosa
Himself – Writer
Patrick Hemingway
Himself – Hemingway's Second Son
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