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In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke--a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a…

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Ernest Hemingway's minimalist prose in The Sun Also Rises captured a nation’s post-war angst. His Green Hills of Africa and Death in the Afternoon defined “He-Man” masculinity. Joan Didion, Flannery O’Conner, and Hunter S. Thompson are counted among his devotees. 

Beneath the façade was an unstable man who drank unendingly, wrecked marriages, and taunted death until his own abruptly came. Losing his first wife Hadley forever imprinted him.

A.E. Hotchner edited for Hem, drank with him, and commiserated. In Hemingway in Love: His Own Story, he recreates their conversational snippets from the writer’s definitive era. Eavesdropping on Hem and Hadley…

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