A. E. Hotchner (1920–2020)
Autore di Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
Sull'Autore
A. E. Hotchner is a dramatist, novelist, screenwriter, and biographer
Opere di A. E. Hotchner
Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple (2003) 175 copie
Paul and Me: Fifty-three Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman (2010) 68 copie
Everyone Comes to Elaine's: Forty Years of Movie Stars, All-Stars, Literary Lions, Financial Scions, Top Cops,… (2004) 17 copie
Opere correlate
Newman's Own Cookbook: A Veritable Cornucopia of Recipes, Food Talk, Trivia, and Newman's Pearls of Wisdom (1985) — Autore — 201 copie
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Collaboratore — 186 copie
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Collaboratore — 103 copie
Hole in the Wall Gang Cookbook: Kid-Friendly Recipes for Families to Make Together (1998) — Autore — 35 copie
Det Bästas Bokval (1996) vol 186 : Dödligt hot; Att möta livet; Det vita guldet; Herre på täppan 3 copie
Looking For Miracles [1989 film] — Original novel — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Hotchner, A. E.
- Nome legale
- Hotchner, Aaron Edward
- Data di nascita
- 1920-06-28
- Data di morte
- 2020-02-15
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Westport, Connecticut, USA - Istruzione
- Washington University
- Attività lavorative
- lawyer
journalist
entrepreneur
screenwriter
author - Relazioni
- Salinger, J. D. (friend)
Hemingway, Ernest (friend) - Organizzazioni
- United States Air Force
Newman's Own - Breve biografia
- Born in St. Louis, Aaron Edward Hotchner grew up in the Westgate Hotel at Delmar and Kingshighway, and attended Soldan High School. A 1941 Washington University Law School graduate, he served as a military journalist before becoming a successful editor, novelist, playwright and biographer. Respected for giving all profits from a joint venture with actor Paul Newman to charities and the arts, Hotchner is best known for Papa Hemingway, his biography of close friend Ernest Hemingway. King of the Hill, A. E. Hotchner's evocative novel about growing up in St. Louis during the Great Depression, was captured on film in 1993.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 32
- Opere correlate
- 10
- Utenti
- 1,829
- Popolarità
- #14,065
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 45
- ISBN
- 133
- Lingue
- 16
Review of the HarperCollins Kindle eBook (October 19, 2010) of the Ecco hardcover original (April 19, 2008).
I've been a bit leery of Hotchner's various Hemingway memoirs. The first one Papa Hemingway (1966) was certainly entertaining and revelatory, but had the sour note of its attempted suppression by Mary Hemingway, the subject's last wife. Hemingway in Love: His Own Story (2015) had the whiff of a late cash-in by its recycling of material from the 1966 work and building a romanticized tale which was likely inspired by Paula McLain's success with her historical fiction of Hemingway's first marriage in The Paris Wife (2011). It also had several errors in it as noted in my review Back to the Well at the time.
So I hadn't give The Good Life According to Hemingway much of a thought until it came up as a Kindle Deal of the Day recently. At a bargain price I thought it was worth a go.
The thing that strikes you about it is that although it is supposedly filled with Hemingway's views about topics such as writing and life, the book is not credited to Hemingway himself, but rather to Hotchner. So you realize these are Hotchner's recreations of things Hemingway said over the 14 years or so that they were friends. A lot of it does sound like things Hemingway would have said, so in that sense Hotchner does capture the voice. Still you are left feeling a bit doubtful about the authenticity.
The volume is pretty slim at 154 pages of which space half is taken up with Hemingway photos, several of which were new to me.
Trivia and Link
The Guardian's obituary of A.E. Hotchner (1917-2020) gives an excellent overview of his career and especially his friendship with Hemingway. It also mentions his friendship with actor Paul Newman, which led to their partnership in the founding of the Newman's Own brand of food products.… (altro)