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Hemingway

The man. The myth. The writer revealed.

2021 1 Season 7.6Series

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.

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Ken Burns

Director

Lynn Novick

Director

Geoffrey C. Ward

Screenplay

Top Cast

Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

Narrator (voice) · 3 eps

Jeff Daniels

Jeff Daniels

Ernest Hemingway (voice) · 3 eps

Michael Kitakis

Himself – Writer · 3 eps

Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien

Herself – Writer · 3 eps

Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff

Self · 3 eps

Mary Dearborn

Herself – Biographer · 3 eps

Abraham Verghese

Himself – Writer · 3 eps

Mary Karr

Herself – Writer · 3 eps

Susan Beegel

Herself – Literary Scholar · 3 eps

Marc Dudley

Himself – Literary Scholar · 3 eps

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

Himself – Writer · 3 eps

Patrick Hemingway

Himself – Hemingway's Second Son · 3 eps

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Himself (archive footage) · 3 eps

Patricia Clarkson

Patricia Clarkson

Grace Hemingway (voice) / Pauline Pfeiffer (voice) · 2 eps

Keri Russell

Keri Russell

Dorothy Parker (voice) / Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (voice) · 2 eps

Mary-Louise Parker

Mary-Louise Parker

Mary Hemingway (voice) / Marcelline Hemingway (voice) · 2 eps

Olivia Gilliatt

Agnes Von Kurowsky (voice) · 1 ep

Dave Quay

Dave Quay

F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice) · 1 ep

Josh Lucas

Josh Lucas

The New Republic (voice) · 1 ep

Joe Morton

Joe Morton

Ralph Ellison (voice) · 1 ep