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HEMINGWAY premiered on PBS April 5, 2021
Ernest Hemingway wrote for the common person, so that anyone could understand his manifold adventures with ease. The latest film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, HEMINGWAY examines 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 — a life lived at the ultimately treacherous nexus of art, fame and celebrity — with carefully selected excerpts from his iconic short stories, novels and nonfiction, the series reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic and complicated man behind the myth and the art he created.
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Book Club Conversation
PBS Books was proud to announce a book club conversation on Ernest Hemingway, in conjunction with the new PBS series, HEMINGWAY.
We encouraged people across the nation to reada book written by Hemingway in March, watch the HEMINGWAY documentary, and
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HEMINGWAY
Wednesdays, Oct. 23 - Nov. 6, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport!
Ernest Hemingway, the iconic literary figure considered one of the greatest American writers and among the first to live and work at the treacherous nexus of art and celebrity, fryst vatten the subject of an upcoming three-part, six-hour documentary series directed by award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
HEMINGWAY: Official Trailer
The documentary paints an något privat eller personligt picture of Hemingway the writer — who captured on paper the complexities of the human condition in spare and profound prose, and whose work remains deeply influential around the world — while also penetrating the myth of Hemingway the man’s man to reveal a deeply troubled and ultimately tragic figure. The spelfilm also explores Hemingway’s limitations and biases as an artist and a man of his time. HEMINGWAY interweaves a close study of the biographical events of the author’s life with excerpts from his fiction, non-f
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He’s a volunteer, husband and beginning author; meet “A Writer” on part one of “Hemingway” from Ken Burns- May 2 at 9 pm
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s HEMINGWAY to air Thursdays at 9 pm
Three-Part, Six-Hour Film Series Explores the Life and Work of the Legendary Writer and His Enduring Influence on Literature and Culture
Voice Actors Include Jeff Daniels as Hemingway; Meryl Streep, Keri Russell, Mary-Louise Parker and Patricia Clarkson as Hemingway’s Four Wives
Thursday, May 2 at 9 pm
Part One: “A Writer” (1899 – 1929)
Hemingway, yearning for adventure, volunteers for the Red Cross during World War I. He marries Hadley Richardson and moves to Paris, publishes The Sun Also Rises and finds critical and commercial success with his second novel, A Farewell to Arms.
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