Hemingway

Overview

Documentary

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.

Cast & crew

Narrator (voice)Peter Coyote

Ernest Hemingway (voice)Jeff Daniels

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Himself – WriterMichael Kitakis

Herself – WriterEdna O'Brien

Himself – WriterTobias Wolff

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Herself – BiographerMary Dearborn

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Himself – WriterAbraham Verghese

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Herself – WriterMary Karr

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Herself – Literary ScholarSusan Beegel

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Himself – Literary ScholarMarc Dudley

Himself – WriterMario Vargas Llosa

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Himself – Hemingway's Second SonPatrick Hemingway

Himself (archive footage)Ernest Hemingway

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Agnes Von Kurowsky (voice)Olivia Gilliatt

Pauline Pfeiffer (voice)Patricia Clarkson

F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice)Dave Quay

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (voice)Keri Russell

Mary Hemingway (voice)Mary-Louise Parker

• Lynn Novick · Director
• Ken Burns · Director
• Geoffrey C. Ward · Writer