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Hemingway and me : letters, anecdotes, and memories of a life-changing friendship / Jeffrey Lyons.

by Lyons, Jeffrey, author.

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Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2021]

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Friends and associates.

Lyons, Leonard, 1906-1976 -- Friends and associates.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Journalists -- United States -- Biography.

9781493055340 (hbk.)

1493055348 (hbk.)

xiii, 140 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

"When Ernest Hemingway died on July 2, 1961, Mary Hemingway asked the Hemingway's good friend, journalist Leonard Lyons, to announce the death of the Nobel Prize-winner to stunned readers and admirers everywhere. Both Hemingways admired Lyons for his fidelity to the truth, that "he would get the story right." (As it turns out the "truth" was not quite what it seemed, since Mary initially denied that her husband's death was suicide.) This memoir recounts the quarter-century long friendship between Hemingway and Leonard Lyons, which eventually came to include Lyons's wife and three sons. In this short book Jeffrey Lyons recounts visits to Hemingway in Cuba (where "Papa" first taught him how to shoot a gun) as well as nights out with the great writer at such popular New York watering holes as the Stork Club and Toots Shor's. Throughout the book Hemingway comes across as a hard-working, generous, and thoughtful man of letters, and not the gruff, hard drinking beast perpetually looking for a fight that he was often perceived as. This is a book about friendship, loyalty, and trust between a famed novelist and a working journalist and his family"--Provided by publisher.

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