A great American writer, seen through his son's eyes

Say the name Ernest Hemingway to most people, and they'll likely think of two things: macho man and short simple sentences. But Patrick Hemingway says those neither capture his father's personality nor his writing style. He explained what it was like growing up a Hemingway recently at Boston's Kennedy Library.

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