The Man Who Wasn't There

Ernest Hemingway's charismatic persona and dramatic life is the stuff of legend: a literary icon, fearless war correspondent and irrepressible womaniser whose star was eclipsed by alcoholism, deception and depression. Yet the man behind these mythologies remains an enigma, when we look behind the stories, we find only shadows and contradictions. In this compelling new biography, which is based on previously unpublished letters from the Hemingway archives, Richard Bradford reveals how Hemingway erased his own existence through a lifetime of invention and delusion and gives the reader a completely new understanding of the Hemingway oeuvre.