Hemingway's Faith

This book offers the first full—length, rigorously researched account of Ernest Hemingway's religious faith and its enduring influence on his life and writing. Challenging the familiar image of Hemingway as a purely secular icon of machismo and modernity, it reveals a writer whose imagination was deeply shaped by Christian formation and, in particular, by Catholic belief and practice.

Drawing on new archival research, interviews with family members, and close biographical analysis, the book...