Mark Kurlansky
The Importance of Not Being Ernest
A Writing Life with an Uninvited Guest¿
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An
Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No
OtherDiscover Hemingway's biography
through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist. New York
Times bestselling author of Salt, Mark
Kurlansky 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
casts. The perfect gift for
writers. By 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…
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An
Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No
OtherDiscover Hemingway's biography
through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist. New York
Times bestselling author of Salt, Mark
Kurlansky 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
casts. The perfect gift for
writers. By 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 inspiring writing
careers. Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest Hemingway in this
personal memoir, where Kurlansky details his ten years in Paris and his time as a
journalist in Spain—both cities important to Hemingway's adventurous life and prolific
writing. Key West, Havana, and Chicago.
Get to know the extraordinary people he met there—those who had 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.In this unique gift for writers,
find:A memoir full of entertaining
and illuminative storiesLittle-known historical facts
about Hemingway's adventure called lifeAnecdotes about
those who suffer from what the Kurlansky calls
hemitis”Readers of biography
books about writers such as Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When
I Talk About Running, John Steinbeck's Travels with
Charley in Search of America, or The
Boys will love The Importance of Not Being
Ernest.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-64250-464-4
- EAN: 9781642504644
- Produktnummer: 38241468
- Verlag: Mango Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: color watercolors by the author
Über den Autor
Mark Kurlansky was born in Hartford, Connecticut. After receiving a BA in Theater from Butler University in 1970—and refusing to serve in the military—Kurlansky worked in New York as a playwright, having a number of off-off Broadway productions, and as a playwright-in-residence at Brooklyn College. He has worked many other jobs, including as a commercial fisherman, a dock worker, a paralegal, a cook, and a pastry chef. In the mid-1970s he turned to journalism, and from 1976 to 1991 he worked as a foreign correspondent for The International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Based in Paris and then Mexico, he reported on Europe, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Central America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. His articles have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Time, The New York Times and many more. He has had 35 books published including fiction, nonfiction, and children's books. His books include Havana, Cod, Salt, Paper, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, among other titles. He has received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Bon Appetit's Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. He lives in New York City.
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