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Name: Papa Hemingway
Author: A. E. Hotchner

A. E. Hotchner chronicles fourteen years of companionship with Ernest Hemingway, spanning trips from New York to Paris, Spain, Cuba, Idaho, and the American Southwest. The memoir details their shared adventures—fishing, hunting, bull‑running—while consistently recording the Nobel Prize–winning author’s reflections on childhood, the 1920s Paris literary scene, his early writing years, and the real events inspiring his fiction. Hotchner’s notes from cities such as Venice, Rome, Key West, the Riviera, and Ketchum, Idaho, where Hemingway died in 1961, provide an intimate, thoroughly researched account of Hemingway’s life and personality.

First publish date: 1966

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography

Authors: A. E. Hotchner

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