Susan Buckley on Hemingway’s Widow

Bravo to Tim Christian for creating a portrait of my friend Mary Hemingway that at last shows her for the complex person she was—so much more than an appendage of “the great man.” The author’s astonishingly deep research into the vast archive of letters, journals, memoirs, interviews allows him to put the fascinated reader into Mary’s thoughts and feelings as she navigated the sometimes glamourous and often treacherous shoals of life with Ernest. This is a story that needed to be told and we are fortunate that Tim Christian has told it so frankly, so sympathetically, and so compellingly. Susan Buckley, author of Eating with Peter