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Award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick direct the definitive story of Ernest Hemingway, the iconic literary figure considered one of the greatest American writers and among the first to live and work at the treacherous nexus of art and celebrity.
The three-part documentary paints an intimate picture of Hemingway the writer who captured on paper the complexities of the human condition in spare and profound prose, and whose work remains deeply influential around the world while also penetrating the myth of Hemingway the man’s man to reveal a deeply troubled and ultimately tragic figure. The film also explores Hemingway’s limitations and biases as an artist and a man of his time. The series (written by Geoffrey C. Ward and produced by Sarah Botstein, both longtime collaborators of Burns and Novick) interweaves a close study of the biographical events of the author’s life with excerpts from his fiction, non-fiction and short sto
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What I knew about Jane Goodall: she was the woman who lived in Africa with apes. I could conjure an image of her from pictures I’d seen slender, attentive, crouched with binoculars, hair pulled into a ponytail. I didn’t remember, if I’d ever known, the seismic shift in primate biology occasioned by her discovery that chimpanzees use tools. Once, in a tense family Trivial Pursuit battle, my middle-aged brain took several minutes of silent concentration to locate the mental file with her name on it. “I know her name has a g,” I said.
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