Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park
English
By (author): Aaron Vetch Mark Cirino Robert K. Elder
The items showcased in Hidden Hemingway are more than stage dressing for a literary life, more than marginalia. They provide definitionand, in some cases, documentationof Hemingways ambition, heartbreak, literary triumphs and trials, and joys and tragedies. Its Hemingways stature as a Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prizewinning author that draws so many biographers and historians to his work. It is also the wealth of material he left behind that makes him such a compelling, engaging, and often polarizing figure.
For Hemingway, the material he saved was both autobiography and research. He gathered data and details that made the life lived in his books more authentic. The authors of Hidden Hemingway have done the same, telling a life story through items that illuminate Hemingways legacy. Some of the material contradicts the public image that Hemingway built for himself, and some supports his larger-than-life myth. In all, Hidden Hemingway celebrates the Ernest Hemingway archives and Oak Parks most famous author. See more