Ernest's Way

Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize winning author, was known as much for his prose as for his travels to exotic locales, his gusto and charm created excitement wherever he went. In Ernest's Way, we follow Cristen around the globe to the places he lived, wrote, fought, drank, fished, ran with the bulls and held court with T.S. Elliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein and many other influential writers, artists and intellectuals of the 20th century.

With fresh and lively prose, Cristen helps readers take in the atmosphere of La Closerie des Lilas, the Parisian cafe where Hemingway penned most of The Sun Also Rises. Or to dine on suckling pig at the oldest restaurant in the world, Sobrino de Bot n in Madrid, as Hemingway did while writing and drinking three bottles of rioja alta in one sitting. We can follow his path through Northern Italy, where he served as an ambulance driver and was seriously wounded in the First World War, or trek through the locations described in A Farewell to Arms. The places in Ernest's Way are map to Hemingway's creative and psychic history--they made him who he was and shaped his life and his work.

Ernest's Way is both a guide to the various cities that Hemingway visited and lived in, both as they are now, and as they were when he graced them. Cristen brings these places to life for the modern reader, allowing all who admire Hemingway's life and literature to enjoy his legacy in a new and vibrant way.