Perhaps no other writer has shared as much public attention as Ernest Hemingway. This book shows how Hemingway's personal yearning for recognition interacted with new trends in the American publishing business and in advertising, and how the emergence of a visual culture of photojournalism and lifestyle magazines led to the public persona familiar to people all over the world. However, the book also shows the tragedy of a man who became the victim of a time that needed unquestionably virile heroes in order to cover up the psychological insecurity caused by the radical social changes taking...

This is the first English-language biography of the man who, behind the scenes, made German translations of Shakespeare possible and brought Moliere's plays to life for the German stage. Wolf Graf Baudissin's life sets a mirror to his age. He was born with the French Revolution, spanning from feudal nobility to the age of industry, from Napoleon's Empire to the Germany of Bismarck. In his youth, he revered Goethe, upheld the German Romantics, yet was at ease with Realists and was championed in old age by Freytag. He was devoted to Bach and the piano, a friend of the Schumanns, Chopin,...