Few if any writers have made a mark as broad and deep as Ernest
Hemingway, whose life and work-and even image-continue to permeate
American culture more than a half-century after his death in 1961.
And never has there been a chronology of the writer's life and
times as comprehensive, detailed, and useful as The Hemingway Log.
For more than a dozen years, Brewster Chamberlin "has been
compiling and wonderfully annotating and continuously updating what
amounts to almost a daybook calendar of Hemingway's life," as
author Paul Hendrickson noted in his acclaimed Hemingway's Boat:
Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost. At long last available to
readers and scholars, this chronology extends from the birth of
Mark Twain (whose Huckleberry Finn, Hemingway said, was the source
of all modern American literature) to the 2013 publication of the
second volume (of a projected seventeen) of the Hemingway letters.
Throughout, the events and dates that had any influence whatsoever
on the writer are detailed day by day. Who won the Nobel Prize in
literature each year, for instance, or the Pulitzer? What works of
poetry, fiction, or drama were published? What was happening in the
world and in the country, and how did it relate to Hemingway?
Within this clarifying context, the chronological facts of the
writer's own life and work unfold: literary production and
publishing; travels and households; activities and relevant
occurrences; relations with family, friends, lovers, and enemies.
Drawing on biographies, memoirs, and various Hemingway collections
and websites, as well as the full range of original sources such as
letters, fishing logs, notebooks, and manuscripts, The Hemingway
Log presents the most extensive and accurate chronology of
Hemingway's life and times-and in the process clears up many of the
inconsistencies and factual errors that riddle accounts of the
writer's life and work. Any future scholar of Hemingway will find
the book not just invaluable but absolutely necessary, and any
serious reader of Hemingway will find it irresistible.
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