The Importance of Not Being Ernest

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An Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No OtherBy 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 great writing careers.Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest Hemingway. In The Importance of Not Being Ernest, Kurlansky details his ten years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spain—both cities important to Hemingway's life, writing, and legend. He also touches on his interludes in the Hemingway haunts of Key West, Havana, and Chicago and the people he met there—those who have 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.Explore Hemingway's life and legend through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist. The New York Times best-selling author of Salt, Mark Kurlansky now 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 cast.In this great gift for writers, find:Entertaining and illuminative storiesLittle-known facts about Hemingway's lifeAnecdotes about those who suffer what the Kurlansky calls "hemitis”Readers of biographies and memoirs about authors such as Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley in Search of America, and Brian Doyle's One Long River of Song will love The Importance of Not Being Ernest.