New York, NY: Picador (2016)

As new in paperback.


Hemingway reveals the true story of divorcing his greatest love and of the globe-trotting life he lived after—one of adventure, celebrity, and quiet regret—to his old friend, A. E. Hotchner.

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.

In characteristically pragmatic terms, Hemingway revealed to Hotchner the details of the affair that destroyed his first marriage: the truth of his romantic life in Paris and how he lost his first wife, Hadley. Memories of roguery along the way are disclosed: impotence cured in a house of God; a drunken plane crash in the African bush; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romantic advice; and champagne shared with Josephine Baker. Adventure, regret, and human shortcomings—the stuff of a Hemingway novel—pervade his tales. Now, for the first time, Hotchner tells the whole story, mostly in Hemingway's own words. Hemingway in Love is the frank, intimate, and candid chapter missing from the definitive biography of a literary master.