Best Selling Books by A. E. Hotchner

An intimate, joy-filled portrait and New York Times bestseller, written by one of Hemingway’s closest friends: “It is hard to imagine a better biography” (Life). In 1948, A. E. Hotchner went to Cuba to ask Ernest Hemingway to write an article on “The Future of Literature” for Cosmopolitan magazine. The article never materialized, but from that first meeting at the El Floridita bar in Havana until Hemingway’s death in 1961, Hotchner and the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author developed a deep and abiding friendship. They caroused in New York City and Rome, ran with the bulls in Pamplona, hunted in Idaho, and fished the waters off Cuba. Every time they got together, Hemingway held forth on an astonishing variety of subjects, from the art of the perfect daiquiri to Paris in the 1920s to his boyhood in Oak Park, Illinois. Thankfully, Hotchner took it all down. Papa Hemingway provides fascinating details about Hemingway’s daily routine, including the German army belt he wore and his habit of writing descriptive passages in longhand and dialogue on a typewriter, and documents his memories of Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Martha Gellhorn, Marlene Dietrich, and many of the twentieth century’s most notable artists and celebrities. In the literary icon’s final years, as his poor health began to affect his work, Hotchner tenderly and honestly portrays Hemingway’s valiant attempts to beat back the depression that would lead him to take his own life. Deeply compassionate and highly entertaining, this “remarkable” New York Times bestseller “makes Hemingway live for us as nothing else has done” (The Wall Street Journal).

Hemingway''s deeply reflective account of his destructive Paris affair and how it affected the legendary life he rebuilt after, as told to his best friend, the writer A.E. Hotchner. In June of 1961, A. E. Hotchner visited a close friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary''s Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke - three weeks later, Ernest Hemingway returned home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a saga that Hemingway had unraveled for Hotchner over years of world travel. Ernest always kept a few of his special experiences off the page, storing them as insurance against a dry-up of ideas. But after a near miss with death, he entrusted his most meaningful tale to Hotchner, so that if he never got to write it himself, then at least someone would know. In characteristically pragmatic terms, Hemingway divulged the details of the affair that destroyed his first marriage: the truth of his romantic life in Paris and how he gambled and lost Hadley, the great love he''d spend the rest of his life seeking. But the search was not without its notable moments, and he told of those, too: of impotence cured in a house of God; of back-to-back plane crashes in the African bush, one of which nearly killed him, while he emerged from the other brandishing a bottle of gin and a bunch of bananas; of cocktails and commiseration with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Josephine Baker; of adventure, human error, and life after lost love. This is Hemingway as few have known him - humble, thoughtful, and full of regret. To protect the feelings of Ernest''s wife, Mary, who was also a close friend, Hotch kept these conversations to himself for decades. Now he tells the story as Hemingway told it to him. Hemingway in Love puts you in the room with the master and invites you to listen as he relives the drama of those young, definitive years that set the course for the rest of his life and dogged him to the end of his days.

In the fourteen years that A. E. Hotchner traveled with Ernest Hemingway, he collected a lifetime''s worth of Hemingway''s experiences, anecdotes, and observations on the backs of matchbooks, napkins, and slips of paper. Speaking on everything from war to women to writing, Hemingway''s words are at turns funny and poignant, revealing a rich portrait of the American literary giant and the world he took by storm. Complete with black-and-white photographs that cover nearly two decades of Hemingway''s life, The Good Life According to Hemingway is an exuberant celebration of his remarkable genius and the chaotic adventure of his life.

"Bound together for the first time, these two boyhood memoirs relate A. E. Hotchner''s coming of age in the Midwest during the Depression"--Provided by publisher.

"Acclaimed author and feisty nonagenarian Hotchner''s witty ruminations about the art of living well into old age...with brio and a touch of his trademark sass, Hotchner writes about rediscovering love after 75, finding joy in a scrappy African gray parrot he named after his longtime friend, Ernest Hemingway, and going on his very first safari at age 88." - Kirkus Reviews When youngsters in their seventies and eighties, nervously lurching toward the horizon of ninety, ask me, "What''s the secret?" That''s what I tell them: "O.J. in the morning, gin and tonic at night." You don''t have to be in your seventies or eighties to enjoy A. E. Hotchner''s elixir for aging happily, but after reading this charming collection of essays, you may wish you were. Nonagenarian, novelist, playwright, and biographer, Hotchner gives us heartfelt and laugh-out-loud anecdotes that describe his unique reflections on the aging process. His musings cover everything from the outlandish commercials that target the older generation (Viagra, Cialis, and Flomax) to suggestions on adapting the tennis game for seniors (he suggests lowering the net by two inches and moving all outer lines two feet inward) to the advantages of having a pet (his pet parrot often tells guests to "kiss my ass"). He can equally capture the headier side of aging, which is bittersweetly revealed in his piece about divorce. With his disarming, eloquent voice and dry sense of humor, Hotch illuminates life''s wisdoms through his optimistic, witty, and romantic outlook, all the while making you feel, well, not unhappy about growing older. O.J. in the Morning, G&T at Night is a book of courageous advice, humorous wisdom, and, above all, good strategies for how to stay young at heart.

The events of the popular, thrice-married, blonde singer-actress''s life, as told to Hotchner, are given a wider frame through candid interviews with her son, mother, friends, and co-stars.

This sequel to Vendome''s books on Cocteau and Chanel is divided into chapters on the places where Hemingway spent his life and wrote his books. It is filled with the personal reminiscences of his good friend, Hotchner, as well as critical analyses of his major works. 520 illustrations, 80 in color.

He eventually went to Officer Candidate School and was assigned to the Anti-Submarine Command as a lieutenant adjutant, but just before his squadron''s departure for North Africa he was detached and, despite knowing nothing about moviemaking, ordered to make a film that glorified the Anti-Submarine Command''s role in combating U-boats."

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Twelve-year-old Aaron Broom is protecting his father’s car from repossession when he witnesses a jewelry store robbery gone wrong. To Aaron’s shock, his father, a struggling salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the murder. Aaron—precocious, plucky, not a little naïve—must seek out gangsters, diamond dealers, bootleggers, and street kids in order to prove his father’s innocence. In his search for justice, Aaron draws upon the resources of a world-weary paperboy, an aspiring teen journalist, and a kindly lawyer. As they dig into the details of the case, these unconventional detectives reveal a cover-up that goes much deeper than a jewelry-store heist gone sour. Through it all, Aaron’s optimism and resourcefulness shine through. Hotchner’s latest is a rollicking ride through St. Louis at its lowest, as seen through the eyes of his most lovable narrator to date.

The White House is the backdrop as historical events, memories and personages are portrayed through letters and writings. A quaint maid serves as an interlocutor connecting scenes mostly of presidents and their wives. From Washington through Wilson with many in between the personal trials, tribulations and tragedies of America''s first Families and the events of the times are seen in impressive vignettes. Starred Helen Hayes on Broadway. -- Publisher''s description.

Traces Sophia Loren''s rise from slum urchin of Pozzuoli to reigning queen of the cinema world, highlighting her early poverty, illegitimacy, criminal prosecution for adultery, marriage, and fight to have a child and surveying the triumphs and tribulations of her filmmaking career.

In the spring of 1945, Benito Mussolini, knowing that the Allied armies were advancing, headed toward Switzerland with a treasure trove of currency, gold, jewels and priceless historical documents. In the northern Italian town of Dongo, he was captured and executed. An inventory was made of the treasure and then it disappeared. This is fact. The fiction weaves in an American, Paul Selwyn, twenty-four years later searching Europe for the treasure creating international suspense, adventure and romance.

A. E. Hotchner did not come to the task of adapting Hemingway''s seven-page short story "After the Storm" with apparent disadvantages. After all, he personally knew Ernest Hemingway; he had traveled with him to Paris, Pamplona, Venice, the Riviera. He had studied Hemingway''s work and already adapted for the television or movie screen fifteen of the Nobel Prize–winning writer''s works, including For Whom the Bell Tolls. Still, in the matter of adaptation, as Hotchner shows in the essay that opens this volume, close familiarity with an artist''s work or personality does not necessarily simplify the challenge to the adapter. In addition to Hotchner''s essay, which identifies the problems posed by adaptations of works not written for the screen, the book includes the complete texts of both Hemingway''s story and the screenplay that converts it into a full-length feature film—making this volume invaluable to film students, movie fans, screenwriters, and Hemingway readers alike.

Contains recipes for dishes and snacks that both kids and adults will enjoy making and eating.

A portrait of the Rolling Stones that depicts a suicidal generation and explains the death of Brian Jones. Hotchner takes the reader through the ascent of the seminal rock group to the disaffection of a generation that begins to devour itself in an orgy of violence and drugs.