The Importance of Not Being Ernest
An Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No Other
“...illuminates his life and works in ways not seen before.” —Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner and author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through
#1 New Release in Historical Latin America Biographies
Discover Hemingway’s biography through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist. New York Times bestselling author of Salt, Mark Kurlansky turns his historical eye to the life of Ernest Hemingway. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, The Importance of Not Being Ernest shows the huge shadow Hemingway casts.
The perfect gift for writers. By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky’s life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingway's legend, starting with being in Idaho the day of Hemingway’s death. The Importance of Not Being Ernest explores the intersections between Hemingway’s and Kurlansky’s lives, resulting in creative accounts of two inspiring writing careers. Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest Hemingway in this personal memoir, where Kurlansky details his ten years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spain—both cities important to Hemingway’s adventurous life and prolific writing.
Paris, Basque Country, Havana and Idaho. Get to know the extraordinary people he met there—those who had also fallen under the Hemingway spell, including a Vietnam veteran suffering from the same syndrome the author did, two winners of the Key West Hemingway look-alike contest, and the man in Idaho who took Hemingway hunting and fishing.
In this unique gift for writers, find:
- A memoir full of entertaining and illuminative stories
- Little-known historical facts about Hemingway’s life
- Anecdotes about those who suffer from what the Kurlansky calls “hemitis”
Readers of Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley in Search of America, or The Boys will love The Importance of Not Being Ernest.
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Book details
- Author
- Mark Kurlansky
- Imprint
- TMA Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 256
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Artists, Architects, Photographers
Biography & Autobiography › Rich & Famous
Biography & Autobiography › Historical
History › United States › 20th Century - Topics
- Ernest Hemingway · literary biography · 20th century history · writers and writing · journalism · American literature
- ISBN-13
- 9781642504637
About the author
MARK KURLANSKY is the author of 35 books, including fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. His recent books include Havana, Paper and 1968.
Kurlansky has received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Bon Appétit Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award.
When not writing, Kurlansky has worked as a commercial fisherman, dock worker, paralegal, cook, and pastry chef, and spent fifteen years as a foreign correspondent for outlets including The International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Much of his nonfiction draws on that global reporting across Europe, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Central America, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Mark lives in New York City.