My Brother, Ernest Hemingway was the only biography Ernest knew about, and he was pleased with it although he asked his brother to postpone publication while he was still alive. First published in 1962, Leicester s biography provides a revealing and intimate portrait of one of the great writers of our century. Ernest Hemingway was a legend in his own time, whose life was as dramatic as any of the characters in his novels and short stories. He won both the Nobel and the Pulitzer prizes for literature, and the literary style he created has been imitated but never matched.

Leicester was the...