The Young Hemingway

Michael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of Americas greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingways persona: his fathers self-destructive battle with depression and his mothers fierce independence and spiritualism. He brings Hemingway through World War I, where he was frustrated by being too far away from the action and glory, despite his being wounded and nursed to health by Agnes Von Kurowsky--the older woman with whom he fell terribly in love.