Almost Hemingway: The Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign Correspondent

Would it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway’s who, in his romantic questing and hell—or—high—water pursuit of life and his art, was closer to the Hemingwayesque ideal than Hemingway himself? Almost Hemingway relates the life of Negley Farson, adventurer, iconoclast, best—selling writer, foreign correspondent, and raging alcoholic who died in oblivion. Born only a few years before Hemingway, Farson had a life trajectory that paralleled and intersected Hem...