The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No Other
Discover Hemingway’s biography through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist. New York Times bestselling author of Salt, Mark Kurlansky turns his historical eye to the life of Ernest Hemingway. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, The Importance of Not Being Ernest shows the huge shadow Hemingway casts.
The perfect gift for writers. By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky’s life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingway’s legend, starting with being in Idaho the day of Hemingway’s death. The Importance of Not Being Ernest explores the intersections between Hemingway’s and Kurlansky’s lives, resulting in creative accounts of two inspiring writing careers. Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest Hemingway in this personal memoir, where Kurlansky details his ten years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spain—both cities important to Hemingway’s adventurous life and prolific writing.
Paris, Basque Country, Havana and Idaho. Get to know the extraordinary people he met there—those who had also fallen under the Hemingway spell, including a Vietnam veteran suffering from the same syndrome the author did, two winners of the Key West Hemingway look-alike contest, and the man in Idaho who took Hemingway hunting and fishing.
In this unique gift for writers, find:
• A memoir full of entertaining and illuminative stories
• Little-known historical facts about Hemingway’s life
• Anecdotes about those who suffer from what the Kurlansky calls “hemitis”
Where to Buy
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Hardcover
Books & Books Press, 2022
ISBN: 978-1642504637
Other Editions
The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway
Audiobook
Recorded Books, LLC, 2022
ISBN: 2940175462242
The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway
Audiobook
Books & Books Press, 2022
Reviews
“For all that’s already been written about Hemingway,The Importance of Not Being Ernest illuminates his life and works in ways not seen before.”
Sigrid Nunez
“The ghost of Hemingway has haunted and inspired at least three generations of writers. Mark Kurlansky is no exception, and his detailed, self-deprecating account of the presence of that ghost is as brilliantly revealing of Hemingway as it is of Kurlansky himself. He knows his Hemingway, the life and the works, and he knows his Kurlansky, and he’s bitingly honest about both writers. Kurlansky, however, comes off as a hell of a lot more likable.”
Russell Banks