About the Book
Ernest Hemingway, arguably America’s most important twentieth-century author, lives again in John I.’s new biographical novel. His hatred of his mother; his macho worship; his love of war and death; all of his women, including four wives and his torrid secret affair with actress Ava Gardner; how Martha Gellhorn beat him to Normandy; and finally, after an agonizing mental decline, how he fell victim of the Hemingway family “suicide curse.” It’s all here!
Behind the Story
For years, I have been fascinated by the work of Ernest Hemingway. When I read A Farewell to Arms in college, I was fascinated with his simple spare way he used words to create strong narrative. In 2022, after I finished A Sagebrush Soul: A Biographical Novel of Mark Twain, I began looking for a new subject. About two weeks later, I was in the maps section at my local library when a book fell off the shelf for no apparent reason. It was In Our Time, the short story collection of Hemingway’s young manhood days with his father. The moment I saw the book, I remembered my childhood days with my own father and I was instantly drawn to it. I had a subject for my next book.