Winner of the 2017 Gold IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards), Reference
Winner of the 2017 Eric Hoffer Award, Reference
Honorable Mention Foreword Reviews’ 2016 Indies 2016 Book Award, Reference
September 6, 2016
“Was Ernest Hemingway The Original American Sniper?” about Hemingway’s claim that he killed 122 German soldiers, is up on the Huffington Post. By Mark Cirino and Robert K. Elder
Mark Cirino was interviewed in-depth on the Evansville Podcast.
September 2, 2016
Part 2 of Hemingway in Comics is up!
“When Wolverine Met Hemingway: A History of Ernest Hemingway in Comics: Part 2”
August 29, 2016
The New Books Network features Hidden Hemingway on its podcast with an interview with Robert K. Elder.
August 17, 2016
The Comics Journal published Rob’s piece:
“When Wolverine Met Hemingway: A History of Ernest Hemingway in Comics: Part I”
August 16, 2016
RogerEbert.com publishes “Hemingway’s Tortured Relationship with Hollywood,” an excerpt from Hidden Hemingway.
August 14, 2016
Matt Murray from the Oak Park Podcast talks to Rob about Fact-checking Hemingway.
July 31, 2016
Steven Darnall talks to Rob on the Nostalgia Digest podcast about Hemingway in pop culture, and features the 1945 radio play of A Farewell to Arms starring Gary Cooper.
July 19, 2016
Seattle’s only newspaper, The Stranger, recommends Hidden Hemingway and previews our July 26 signing.
July, 18, 2016
Listen: Hidden Hemingway is featured on WBEZ’s Morning Shift.
July 17, 2016
Coverage from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
July 15, 2016
Robert K. Elder talks about Hidden Hemingway on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight.”
July 14, 2016
WTTW excerpts “Hidden Hemingway,” a chapter about Hemingway’s tumultuous relationship with his hometown, Oak Park.
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/07/14/oak-park-collections-reveal-hidden-hemingway
July 12, 2016
The Chicago Tribune just published Robert K. Elder’s piece “Hemingway’s first love? His passionate poem is found in Oak Park,” which breaks news about Hemingway’s first-ever love poem (featured in the book) and an unknown romance.
Check it out here.
PRAISE:
“Ernest Hemingway was the genuine literary giant of my youth: we groundlings studied him closely, we imitated and then we parodied him, we admired the fine figure he cut and envied his celebrity, and now fifty years later, it’s a privilege to look through his closet and read his stuff and discover him as a mortal man.”
— Garrison Keillor, author of Lake Wobegon and A Visit to Mark Twain’s House
“Hidden Hemingway offers remarkable insights into the complex and frequently-tortured inner life of one of the 20th Century American authors most likely to survive the test of time. An invaluable book for anyone interested in Hemingway or the development of a major creative mind.”
— Scott Turow, author of Identical and Presumed Innocent
“A fascinating book about the most fascinating writer in American history. Hemingway’s life unfolds from these pages in brilliant detail and endless surprise.”
— Jonathan Eig, author of Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster
“What an absolute delight to have the treasures of the Oak Park Hemingway archives collected between two covers: little-known and previously unpublished photographs, family memorabilia, historic images of Oak Park, newspaper clippings, love letters, boyhood notebooks, Hemingway’s earliest fiction, and much, much more. A gem for scholars and fans alike!”
— Carl P. Eby, co-editor of Hemingway’s Spain: Imagining the Spanish World
“These manuscripts, photographs, and objects drawn from Hemingway’s personal papers might have the aura of a reliquary if they did not also and so uncannily convey a kind of longing known to those of us who spend our lives in the archives. Here not Hemingway, and not the authors of the present volume, but the archive itself must be credited as memoirist—a memoirist, moreover, who wakes us up to the souls of artifacts. The painstaking research involved in the documentation of these pieces never threatens to disturb their mysterious silence or their infinite summons.”
— Marta Werner, editor of The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems