Hemingway and Me: Letters, Anecdotes, and Memories of a Life-Changing Friendship

by Jeffrey Lyons

Book Overview

When Ernest Hemingway died on July 2, 1961, Mary Hemingway asked the Hemingway's good friend, journalist Leonard Lyons, to announce the death of the Nobel Prize-winner to stunned readers and admirer everywhere. Both Hemingways admired Lyons for his fidelity to the truth, that "he would get the story right." (As it turns out the "truth" was not quite what it seemed, since Mary initially denied that her husband's death was suicide.) This memoir recounts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493055348
• ISBN13: 9781493055340
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.7"