The visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Interweaving his eventful biography with carefully selected excerpts from his iconic short stories, novels, and non-fiction, the series reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind the myth, and the art he created.

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Cast

Peter Coyote

Narrator (voice)

Jeff Daniels

Ernest Hemingway (voice)

Edna O'Brien

Herself – Writer

Tobias Wolff

Himself – Writer

Mario Vargas Llosa

Himself – Writer

Ernest Hemingway

Himself (archive footage)