Overview
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.
ProducersSarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
ScreenplayGeoffrey C. Ward
Top Casts
Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)
Jeff Daniels
Ernest Hemingway (voice)
Michael Kitakis
Himself – Writer
Edna O'Brien
Herself – Writer
Tobias Wolff
Himself – Writer
Mary Dearborn
Herself – Biographer
Abraham Verghese
Himself – Writer
Mary Karr
Herself – Writer
Susan Beegel
Herself – Literary Scholar
Marc Dudley
Himself – Literary Scholar
Details
First air date2021-04-05
Last air date2021-04-07
Production countriesUnited States of America
LanguageEnglish
Production companiesFlorentine Films, WETA, PBS
Homepagehttps://www.pbs.org/show/hemingway/
TaglineThe man. The myth. The writer revealed.