“Hemingway’s Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway”
Author: Timothy Christian
“Hemingway’s Widow” is the story of Mary Welsh, her humble roots, her adventures as a reporter during World War II, her years as the fourth and last wife and primary editor of Ernest Hemingway in his struggling, declining years and as the widow who jealously guarded and published more of his work, as well as defining his legacy.
Author Timothy Christian has written an extremely well-researched and lucid biography that reads like a novel and will entertain as well as educate. In a preface that is worth the price of the book itself, eminent Hemingway scholar H.R. Stoneback of the State University of New York touts Christian’s “superb skills as a heavy equipment operator in biography” and labels this work “the Hemingway book we’ve all been waiting for so long.”
In it, through Mary, we see Hemingway as an adventurous, if at times somewhat bloviating, war correspondent, as the beloved symbol of an already famous expatriate writer in Cuba and as an abusive but adoring husband. With her, we get to visit Paris, run with the bulls in Spain, hunt for wild beasts in Africa, live in the lush tropics and glittering high mountains and fish for trophy Marlin in the Gulf Stream.
“Hemmingway’s Widow” is a compelling true story that will give you a different perspective of what many have called America’s all-time greatest writer.
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