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2021 Documentary

Hemingway

"The man. The myth. The writer revealed."

The visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Interweaving his eventful biography with carefully selected excerpts from his iconic short stories, novels, and non-fiction, the series reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind the myth, and the art he created.

Official Trailer

Principal Cast

Peter Coyote

Narrator (voice)

Jeff Daniels

Ernest Hemingway (voice)

Michael Kitakis

Himself – Writer

Edna O'Brien

Herself – Writer

Tobias Wolff

Himself – Writer

Mary Dearborn

Herself – Biographer

Abraham Verghese

Himself – Writer

Mary Karr

Herself – Writer

Susan Beegel

Herself – Literary Scholar

Marc Dudley

Himself – Literary Scholar

Mario Vargas Llosa

Himself – Writer

Patrick Hemingway

Himself – Hemingway's Second Son

Ernest Hemingway

Himself (archive footage)

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