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In June of 1961, A. E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke: a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling Hemingway had spread over nearly a decade.

Between 1948 and 1961, Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner traveled together, fished the waters off Cuba, hunted in Idaho, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona. Everywhere they went, they talked. For 14 years, Hotchner and Hemingway shared their thoughts and as Hemingway reminisced about his childhood, recalled the Paris literary scene of the 20s, and recounted the real events that lay behind his fiction, Hotchner took it all down.

A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project elevated both men from relative obscurity to recognition and began a close and trusted friendship that lasted until Newman’s death in 2008.

PAPA HEMINGWAY er Hotchners meget personlige biografi om vennen Ernest Hemingway. Bogen beskriver de fjorten år, deres venskab varede frem til Hemingways død i 1961. Fortid og samtid væves sammen af de mange flashbacks til barndommen, til Paris i 1920‘erne og til personer og begiven- heder, som inspirerede til Hemingways romaner og noveller. Bogen tegner et helt unikt billede af en af verdens mest berømte og mytiske forfattere og hans relation til andre forfattere, venner og ikke mindst de fire hustruer.