{"id":34433,"date":"2024-04-12T09:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amplify.nabshow.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=34433"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:21:19","slug":"hemingway-ken-burns-and-lynn-novick-revisit-the-life-of-an-american-icon","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/articles\/hemingway-ken-burns-and-lynn-novick-revisit-the-life-of-an-american-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHemingway:\u201d How Do You Make That Writing Cinematic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns article-content is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" data-attachment-id=\"168137\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/articles\/hemingway-ken-burns-and-lynn-novick-revisit-the-life-of-an-american-icon\/ernest-hemingway-cr-ernest-hemingway-collection-john-f-kennedy-presidential-library-and-museum-boston\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/S3537-LR-1200x630-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,630\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Photographer unknown. Scanned from original 7 1\/2\\&quot;x9 1\/2\\&quot; file print on DAMS9 by CMA&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;EH5647P           undated\\n\\nErnest Hemingway sitting at typewriter, writing on \\&quot;Finca Vigia, near San Francisco de Paula, Cuba San Francisco de Paula Cuba\\&quot; stationary, at Finca Vigia, near San Francisco de Paula, Cuba\\n\\nPlease credit: \\&quot;Photographer unknown. Ernest Hemingway Collection. Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston\\&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ernest Hemingway. Cr: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ernest Hemingway. Cr: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/S3537-LR-1200x630-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C538&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/S3537-LR-1200x630-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C630&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ernest Hemingway. Cr: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston\" class=\"wp-image-168137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/S3537-LR-1200x630-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/S3537-LR-1200x630-1.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/S3537-LR-1200x630-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C538&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/S3537-LR-1200x630-1.jpg?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/S3537-LR-1200x630-1.jpg?resize=640%2C336&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ernest Hemingway. Cr: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new documentary series directed by award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick examines the life of iconic literary figure Ernest Hemingway. Now available to stream for free on all station-branded PBS platforms, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kenburns\/hemingway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PBS.org<\/a> and the PBS Video app, <em>Hemingway<\/em> paints an intimate picture of the writer \u2014 who captured on paper the complexities of the human condition in spare and profound prose, and whose work remains deeply influential around the world \u2014 while also piercing the myth of Hemingway as the man\u2019s man to reveal a deeply troubled and ultimately tragic figure. The series also explores Hemingway\u2019s limitations and biases as an artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In three two-hour episodes, <em>Hemingway<\/em> tracks the meteoric rise and tragic fall of the author who, in his final years, suffered from chronic alcoholism, traumatic brain injuries and serious mental illness. In 1961, at the age of 61, Hemingway died by suicide, leaving behind an unparalleled body of artistic work and a complicated emotional legacy for those closest to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hemingway | Official Trailer #1: The Myth | A Film by Ken Burns &amp; Lynn Novick | PBS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sp7Lhdc4-vw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The filmmakers were granted unusually open access to the treasure trove of Hemingway\u2019s manuscripts, correspondence, scrapbooks and photographs housed at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. Interviews with renowned biographers and scholars, including Mary Dearborn and Marc Dudley, shed new light on the man and his work; and well-known writers around the world \u2014 including Edna O\u2019Brien, Abraham Verghese, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mary Karr, Tim O\u2019Brien, Akiko Manabe, Leonardo Padura and Tobias Wolff \u2014 deepen the film\u2019s exploration of Hemingway\u2019s work. It also includes moving commentary from Hemingway\u2019s surviving son, Patrick, and from the late Senator John McCain, whose lifelong role model was Robert Jordan, the protagonist of <em>For Whom the Bell Tolls<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/S0010-LR.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Ernest Hemingway with his fourth wife, Mary Welsh, at the Finca Vigia, Cuba, 1950s. Cr: A.E. Hotchner\" class=\"wp-image-34422\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ernest Hemingway with his fourth wife, Mary Welsh, at the Finca Vigia, Cuba, 1950s. Cr: A.E. Hotchner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the great challenges of this project,\u201d said producer Sarah Botstein, \u201cwas finding ways \u2014 visually, cinematically \u2014 to show how Hemingway honed his craft and how he used words to such extraordinary effect. In collaboration with our editors, we deployed all the tools in our filmmaking toolbox \u2014 graphic effects, archival footage and photographs, live cinematography, sound effects \u2014 to make Hemingway\u2019s work come fully alive on screen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhatever you already know or don\u2019t know about Ernest Hemingway and his work and his life, the new PBS documentary Hemingway is certain to add more to that body of knowledge and very likely to make you reassess much of it,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/30\/982637327\/ken-burns-hemingway-docuseries-dives-into-the-writers-complicated-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Bianculli<\/a>, professor of television studies at Rowan University in New Jersey, in his review for NPR. \u201cAs a Ken Burns and company literary biography, <em>Hemingway<\/em> is even better than their previous documentary on Mark Twain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/S1323-LR.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Ernest Hemingway on the fishing boat Anita circa 1929. Cr: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston\" class=\"wp-image-34428\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ernest Hemingway on the fishing boat Anita circa 1929. Cr: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Narrated by Burns\u2019 longtime voice-over collaborator Peter Coyote, the series features an all-star cast of actors bringing Hemingway (voiced by Jeff Daniels), his friends and family vividly to life. Through letters to and from his four wives \u2014 voiced by Meryl Streep, Keri Russell, Mary-Louise Parker and Patricia Clarkson \u2014 the film reveals Hemingway at his most romantic and his most vulnerable, grappling at times with insecurity, anxiety and existential loneliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hemingway | Official Trailer #2: A Portrait | A Film by Ken Burns &amp; Lynn Novick | PBS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/USokfoM5uck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn this new <em>Hemingway<\/em> documentary, the women around the author are as illuminating as the author himself,\u201d Bianculli notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEach of his four wives has something revelatory to say. And these spouses are given voice by a quartet of wonderful actresses who bring the women\u2019s private letters and other writings to vivid life. Meryl Streep has the meatiest part as war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway\u2019s third wife. Her dispatches during the Normandy invasion rivaled and arguably exceeded his own. But the other wives are given voice by Keri Russell, Mary-Louise Parker and Patricia Clarkson. And Jeff Daniels supplies the voice of Ernest Hemingway, reading from his private letters as well as his published short stories and other writings.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/30\/982637327\/ken-burns-hemingway-docuseries-dives-into-the-writers-complicated-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ken Burns\u2019 \u2018Hemingway\u2019 Docuseries Dives Into The Writer\u2019s Complicated Life (NPR)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/982637327\/982751147\" width=\"100%\" height=\"230\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/ken-burns-hemingway-documentary-lynn-novick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Clark Collis<\/a> in an interview for <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>, Novick admits that she and Burns struggled to fit all of Hemingway\u2019s life into the three-part show. \u201cYou know, people will laugh at me for saying so, but yes,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are interviews that didn\u2019t make it in that were great and there were long passages of his writing that we couldn\u2019t get in. Finding the right length is always a challenge, but we also had to be mindful of our time, our budget, what would be the right length that people would want to watch. We\u2019re happy with what we landed on. But the hope is that people who watch the film, or even part of it, will be intrigued and want to go and read some Hemingway, which would be a great thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/ken-burns-hemingway-documentary-lynn-novick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ken Burns and Lynn Novick talk about tackling Hemingway in their new documentary series (Entertainment Weekly)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exploring Hemingway | A Documentary by Ken Burns &amp; Lynn Novick\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/swAQ5HfLLIk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/01\/books\/hemingway-documentary-ken-burns-lynn-novick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gal Beckman<\/a>, in the <em>New York Times<\/em>, wonders if there could be \u201canything more subversive than turning a spotlight, in this moment, on Ernest Hemingway,\u201d asking Burns, \u201cWhy now?\u201d There is no \u201cnow,\u201d Burns insisted to Beckman, noting that the long-gestated project just happened to coincide with the current spotlight on toxic masculinity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWell, you know, we don\u2019t have a \u2018now.\u2019 We were talking about Hemingway as early as the early \u201880s. I found a scrap of paper from after we decided to do the Civil War that said, \u2018Do Hemingway, Baseball,\u2019 and then it showed up on lists through the end of the aughts and into the teens. We didn\u2019t know it was going to take six years to do. We don\u2019t anticipate the timing of it. We just know that every project we work on will resonate in the present, because human nature doesn\u2019t change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/S0311-LR.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Ernest Hemingway recovering from injuries at the American Red Cross Hospital in Milan, Italy, 1918. Cr: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston\" class=\"wp-image-34424\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ernest Hemingway recovering from injuries at the American Red Cross Hospital in Milan, Italy, 1918. Cr: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Novick observed that our current reckoning with toxic masculinity makes this a particularly good time to re-examine the life of Hemingway:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re aware of the fact that he\u2019s a controversial figure. And that there are people who are so put off by his public persona that they haven\u2019t read his work or don\u2019t want to read his work. But we are living in times when we are re-evaluating all these icons from our past. And there\u2019s no better way to do that than looking at Ernest Hemingway. Some of it is very ugly, and very difficult. And if you\u2019re a woman or a person of color, or you\u2019re Jewish, or you\u2019re Native American, there are going to be things in Hemingway that are going to be really, really tough. But he is so important as a literary figure and in terms of his influence that to ignore him seems to just avoid the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/01\/books\/hemingway-documentary-ken-burns-lynn-novick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">They Are Giving Hemingway Another Look, So You Can, Too (New York Times)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/S1644-JFK-LR.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Hemingway family portrait. From left to right: Ursula, Clarence, Ernest, Grace, and Marcelline Hemingway. October 1903. Cr: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston\" class=\"wp-image-34415\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hemingway family portrait. From left to right: Ursula, Clarence, Ernest, Grace, and Marcelline Hemingway. October 1903. Cr: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of the launch of <em>Hemingway<\/em>, PBS produced \u201cConversations on Hemingway,\u201d a nine-part series of conversations featuring discussions with the filmmakers and leading writers and scholars. Topics ranged from Hemingway\u2019s childhood and his journalism and war experiences to his history with women, along with discussions on gender and identity. The entire series can be viewed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kenburns\/hemingway\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PBS.org<\/a>, along with a trove of photos and a multimedia timeline of Hemingway\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want more? Watch Ken Burns navigate the gap between the macho persona and the real inner life of his subject in an appearance on <em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ken Burns Unpacks Ernest Hemingway&#039;s Facade of Masculinity\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nGYIbdz9t_Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also watch Burns and Novick discuss their new PBS docuseries in a recent interview with Jim Braude for Boston\u2019s <em>GBH News<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ken Burns &amp; Lynn Novick Take A New Look At Ernest Hemingway\u2019s Complex Life\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NkQJzg5X5WQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In \u201cBehind the Scenes: Making Hemingway,\u201d Burns, Novick and Botstein give a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the documentary series. 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