Hemingway in Love

This biographical memoir of the Nobel Laureate is “the first complete understanding of the writer as a man . . . an important book” ( Library Journal , starred review). In June of 1961, A. E. Hotchner visited a close friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary’s Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke—three weeks later, Ernest Hemingway returned home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a saga that Hemingway had un