Hemingway
"The man. The myth. The writer revealed."
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.
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward
Produced by: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
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