A Death Wish: A Biographical Novel of Ernest Hemingway (Great American Authors Series)

Before Ernest Hemingway became a legend, he was a boy fighting to become himself.A Death Wish: A Biographical Novel of Ernest Hemingway brings one of America’s most famous writers to life through a gripping blend of fact, imagination, and emotional insight. This biographical novel follows Hemingway from his complicated childhood in Oak Park to the battlefields of Italy, the cafés of Paris, the heat of Key West, the violence of Spain, and the final years when fame, memory, and pain closed in around him.John Isaac Jones presents Hemingway not only as a literary icon but as a man shaped by family conflict, ambition, love, war, masculinity, and wounds he could never fully silence. Readers meet the son who struggled under his mother’s expectations, the young man who chased danger and romance, the husband who loved intensely but imperfectly, and the writer who turned experience into unforgettable prose.This Ernest Hemingway novel captures the private cost behind public greatness. It explores the women who loved him, the friendships that defined a generation, the wars that scarred him, and the stories that secured his place in American literature.Inside this powerful work of literary historical fiction, readers will find:• A vivid portrait of Hemingway’s childhood, family tensions, and early identity struggles• A dramatic journey through war, journalism, Paris, fame, marriage, divorce, and creative triumph• A human look at the emotional forces behind some of Hemingway’s most enduring works• A richly imagined biographical fiction novel about genius, pride, trauma, love, and self-destruction• A compelling read for fans of American literary lives and 20th-century historical fictionFor readers drawn to literary biography and stories about the making and unraveling of great writers, A Death Wish offers an intimate and deeply human look at Ernest Hemingway’s rise, brilliance, and decline. Read more