VINTAGE 1969 Ernest Hemingway A LIFE STORY by CARLOS BAKER

This biography brings into sharp focus a picture of one of the most unusual men of our time. Previously blurred by legends and half-truths, the life of Ernest Hemingway has never until now been represented as it was, not have the relationships between his works of fiction and his actual experiences been shown in true perspective.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

I. MIDWESTERN BOYHOOD

1. The Country and the Town

2. Arts and Sciences

3. Juvenilia

4. The Enormous Room

II. VETERAN OUT OF THE WARS

5. The Schio Country Club

6. Milano

7. Soldier's Home

8. North Country

III. EMERGENCE

9. Hadley

10. One True Sentence

11. Going Back

12. Black Forest, Black Sea

13. Lausanne

14. Rapallo and Cortina

15. Iberia

IV. SUN ASCENDING

16. The Bearing of the Young

17. Carpenter's Loft

18. Transatlantic

19. To the Eastern Kingdom

20. This Quarter

21. The Sun Also Rises

22. Double-Crossings

23. Year of the Avalanches

24. The End of Something

V. MAN OF LETTERS

25. The Hundred Days

26. Men Without Women

27. Going West

28. A Farewell to Arms

29. The Island and the Valley

30. Death in the Afternoon

31. A Place to Come Back To

VI. FORMS OF COMBAT

32. Winner Take Nothing

33. Revolutions

34. Highlands of Africa

35. The Long Journey Home

36. Notes on Life and Letters

37. Bimini Discovered

38. The Persuaders

39. The Slopes of Kilimanjaro

VII. LOYALIST

40. Moving In

41. Capital of the World

42. The Spanish Earth

43. American Interlude

44. The Fifth Column

45. The Banks of the Ebro

46. Pulling Out

VIII. EAST AND WEST

47. Spoils of Spain

48. Sun Valley

49. For Whom the Bell Tolls

50. Rewards

51. To the East

52. The Wound and the Bow

53. Improvisations

54. Men at War

55. Dangling Man

IX. ANOTHER WAR

56. Pursuit to London

57. Cross-Channel Operations

58. Return to Normandy

59. The Road to Paris

60. Under the Westwall

61. Im Hürtgenwald

62. Paris Command Post

X. RETURNINGS

63. The View from the Finca Vigia

64. The Nettle and the Flower

65. Eden Invaded

66. Past and Present

67. Across the River

68. Slings and Arrows

69. People in Pain

70. The Old Man and the Sea

XI. A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

71. Year of the Hunters

72. Uganda and After

73. The Bounty of Sweden

74. Looking Backward

75. A Man of Sixty

76. Journey Down

SOURCES AND NOTES

DEBTS AND CREDITS

INDEX

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Reader Review:

5.0 out of 5 stars

Papa Hemingway a personal memoir - by A.E. Hotchner

Have read many books and biographies on this brilliant, fascinating man. Hotchner's is the most pure and intimate account....the best book if you want to get to know "the real man". I prefer to read what is written by people who knew him, worked directly with him, or are in fact, related to him.

Also, I feel that his so called mental illness is not recorded correctly....and that there is more we need to know. For starters, the awful shock treatments - how these could have affected his brain, hence his behavior....we will learn more as science probes. So, to make him out to be crazy is a pathetic excuse of an effort to learn about the real fellow by focusing on this negative, when there is so much more to his character, his personality. Also, I chose to read that which does not suffer the editorial rights of Mary Hemingway!!!!! She did not approve of Hotchner's book - made me really want to run out and buy it, and that I did. An absolute must! Thank you A. E. Hotchner!