Hemingway: The 1930s

“[R]eads like a novel, filled with strongly drawn characters and a wealth of lively detail…. The book offers as much insight into the creative process as it does into this crucial period of our history.”―Lee Smith In the years between A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls , Ernest Hemingway matured as a writer against the backdrop of Cuban revolutions, African game trails, Key West impoverishment, and the Spanish Civil War. He experimented in fiction and nonfiction, pushing his limits as a writer, in such works as Death in the Afternoon , Green Hills of Africa , and To Have and Have Not . In this “masterpiece in the making,” Reynolds brings us so close to Hemingway that “you can all but smell Hemingway’s whisky breath coming off the pages” ( Library Journal ). Photographs