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Join us on Zoom for a conversation with author Mark Kurlansky, discussing his new memoir, The Importance of Not Being Ernest.
This event will be broadcast live on Zoom. Registration and an email address are required to receive the link to participate.
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About the author:
Mark Kurlansky was born in Hartford, Connecticut. After receiving a BA in Theater from Butler University in 1970, and refusing to serve in the military, Kurlansky worked in New York as a playwright. He worked many other jobs including as a commercial fisherman, a dock worker, a paralegal, a cook, and a pastry chef. In the mid 1970s, unhappy with the direction New York theater was taking, he turned to journalism. His articles have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The International Herald Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, Partisan Review, Harper’s, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Audubon Magazine, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Bon Apetit and Parade.
He has had 35 books published including fiction, nonfiction, and children's books and has been translated into 30 languages.
Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, The Importance of Not Being Ernest shows the huge shadow Hemingway casts. The perfect gift for writers, this personal memoir takes the reader on world travels with Kurlansky, whose life has always been intertwined with Hemingway's legend. The author details his ten years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spain—both places important to Hemingway's adventurous life and prolific writing. Along the way, readers will meet those who had also fallen under the Hemingway spell, including a Vietnam veteran suffering from the same syndrome the author did, two winners of the Key West Hemingway look-alike contest, and a man in Idaho who took Hemingway hunting and fishing.
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