Ernest Hemingway, subject of a new documentary, at his home in Cuba. (A.E. Hotchner) In 1924 the critic Edmund Wilson did what critics are known to do on occasion: He heralded the arrival of a ...

Boorish. Adventurous. Violent. Virile. Manly. You don’t need to have read a word of Ernest Hemingway since high school to feel like you know the man. The Nobel laureate's brash public persona, so ...

Making a documentary series about Ernest Hemingway, the American writer who famously developed a reputation for being almost stereotypically masculine, might seem an odd choice of subject for Ken ...

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 ...

Ernest Hemingway, one of American’s greatest authors, spent a lot of time in northern Michigan. A new three-part Public Broadcasting Service documentary, “Hemingway” by Lynn Novick and Ken Burns ...

Hemingway, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s latest PBS series, is a hagiography of one of the most popular writers of the 20th century, the tale of a man whose writing, image, and life were regularly the ...

There were few places Ernest Hemingway could slip away into obscurity. But Michigan was one of them and offered the famed writer a safe haven and place of inspiration. The northern Michigan woods ...

“I have always had the illusion it was more important, or as important, to be a good man as to be a great writer. I may turn out to be neither. But would like to be both.” — Ernest Hemingway A new PBS ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about their new PBS documentary Hemingway. Actor Jeff Daniels reads from Hemingway's private letters and other writings. There will be ...

In 1924 the critic Edmund Wilson did what critics are known to do on occasion: He heralded the arrival of a stunning new voice in American fiction. Reviewing Ernest Hemingway’s first two books, “Three ...