Hemingway's Faith

This delightfully written 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 biographic...