Title: Hemingway and his conspirators
First published: 1997
Description: With a cast of famous characters, this book tells the backstage story of how Hemingway seized upon an emerging mass culture to become the premier author of the twentieth century. Leff's Hemingway goes beyond other biographical studies to expose how the public figure of Hemingway was created by mass media with the help of and eventually beyond the control of Ernest Hemingway. This book portrays the personal and commercial creation of a tragic public figure in a world of promotion, advertising, and publicity. - Back cover.
Subjects: Appreciation, Authors and publishers, Authors and readers, Authorship, Charles Scribner's Sons, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Authorship, Film adaptations, Film and video adaptations, History, History and criticism, Literature publishing, Marketing, Hemingway, ernest, 1899-1961, Authorship, marketing, Motion pictures, history, Publishers
Places: United States
People: Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3515.E37 Z68935 1997