In this concise and sparkling account of the life and work of America’s most storied writer, Clancy Sigal presents a persuasive case for the relevance of Ernest Hemingway to readers today.

Sigal breaks new ground in celebrating Hemingway’s passionate and unapologetic political partisanship, his stunningly concise, no-frills writing style, and an attitude to sex and sexuality much more nuanced than traditionally assumed. Sigal insists that, simply for the pleasure provided by a consummate story teller, Hemingway is still as much a must-read as ever.

Though Hemingway Lives! will provide plenty that’s new for those already familiar with Papa’s oeuvre, including substantial forays into his political commitments, the women in his life, and the astonishing range of his short stories, it assumes no prior knowledge of his work. Those venturing into Hemingway’s writing for the first time will find in Sigal an inspirational and erudite guide.

CLANCY SIGAL, a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award winner, is the author of Weekend in Dinlock, Going Away (a National Book Award runner-up), Zone of the Interior, The Secret Defector, and A Woman of Uncertain Character. He co-wrote the 2002 feature film Frida, as well as In Love and War about a young and wounded Hemingway’s passionate love affair with his nurse.