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Ernest Hemingway: Life
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American novelist, short-story writer and journalist Ernest Hemingway served as a war correspondent before joining Paris's expatriate community in the 1920s. His writing style, characterized by terse minimalism, is exemplified in novels such as A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises. Through period documents, artwork and other archival material, this program delves into the personal and professional milestones of the larger than life author.
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On recently being approached to play Ernest Hemingway: "I think I can play someone like that," he says. "I think he did all that stuff in his life for a reason -- some of the reason I think was he was in pain a lot of the time, and he needed to keep moving."
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Hemingway divorced Hadley Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer, a devout Roman Catholic from Piggott, Arkansas. Pfeiffer was an occasional fashion reporter, publishing in magazines such as Vanity Fair and Vogue.[12] Hemingway converted to Catholicism himself at this time. That year saw the publication of Men Without Women, a collection of short stories, containing "The Killers", one of Hemingway's best-known and most-anthologized stories. In 1928, Hemingway and Pfeiffer moved to Key West, Florida, to begin their new life together. However, their new life was soon interrupted by yet another tragic event in Hemingway's life.
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From early in his life Hemingway traveled more than most people at that time. He had an enormous appetite for adventure, war and danger. That gave him a chance to show of the macho image he was creating for himself all his life. The first visit to Kenya and Tanganyika (Tanzania) was in 1933 with his second wife, Pauline. He was probably a bit bored at the time seeking out for new inspiration. Early on the safari Hemingway was sick with dysentery.
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Following the advice of John Dos Passos, Hemingway returned to Key West, Florida in 1931, where he established his first American home, which has since been converted to a museum. From this 1851 solid limestone house — a wedding present from Pauline's uncle — Hemingway fished in the waters around the Dry Tortugas with his longtime friend Waldo Pierce, went to the famous bar Sloppy Joe's, and occasionally traveled to Spain, gathering material for Death in the Afternoon and Winner Take Nothing. Over the next 9 years, until the end of this marriage in 1940, and then in a second period throughout the 1950s, Hemingway would do an estimated 70% of his lifetime's writing in the writer's den in the upper floor of the converted garage, in back of this house.
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Hemingway's tracks in the snow are easy to follow. This was the Hemingway of the 20's. Back from the Great War, Hemingway was still on his way. A reporter based in Paris for the Toronto Star, a roving correspondent writing down what he saw in typical staccato sentences; he was juggling a vast appetite for life and a tiny budget.
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