Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds

Reminiscence on his final days with Hemingway. Includes Hotchner’s belated admission that Hemingway was right after all—the FBI had been following him since the 1940s

Hemingway’s Blessing, Copland’s Collaboration

Recounts his 1957 experience adapting four Nick Adams stories for television. Hotchner discusses composer Aaron Copland’s central role in the production’s score. Concludes with details of the 2001 stage version starring Paul Newman

Hemingway in Love: His Own Story: A Memoir

First published 1966 as Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir by Random House. Hotchner explains that his expanded memoir, based on their thirteen-year friendship, is made up of excised portions of the 1966 manuscript, his original notes, and fifty-year-old recollections. Reconstructing what Hemingway told him about those tumultuous years spent in 1920s Paris, Hotchner relates the author’s reminiscences regarding “the only real love” of his life, first wife Hadley Richardson, and his ultimate betrayal of her with Pauline Pfeiffer. Also comments on Hemingway’s relationships with his third and fourth wives and F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ernest Hemingway’s \u3cem\u3eAfter the Storm\u3c/em\u3e: The Story, Plus the Screenplay and a Commentary

Recounts his challenges over the years in adapting Hemingway’s work to the screen. Hotchner comments that though Hemingway’s minimalist style was effective on paper, revealing more of Hemingway’s iceberg to meet the needs of the dramatic form engenders numerous pitfalls. Reprints both the original six-page short story and Hotchner’s one hundred and nineteen-page screenplay