Nancy W. Sindelar, PhD, is the author of Influencing Hemingway: People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work and a popular presenter on the life and work of Ernest Hemingway. She has made multiple presentations at the International Colloquium Ernest Hemingway in Havana, Cuba; the American Literature Association Conferences in the United States; and the Hemingway Society Conferences in Italy, France, and Spain as well as Oak Park, Illinois, and Sheridan, Wyoming. She also has keynoted the Hemingway Festivals in Key West, Florida, and Sun Valley, Idaho.

Nancy's writing and presentations are energized by her passion for all things Hemingway, her research into his private letters and published works, and her extensive travel to and knowledge of the locales that were important to him. She has lived in Hemingway's home in Ketchum, Idaho, as the 2021 Writer-in-Residence, has guided walking tours through young Hemingway's Oak Park, and has been a cultural enrichment speaker on luxury cruises to Cuba and the Caribbean. She has stood in the bedroom where Hemingway was born and in the foyer where he ended his life, and has visited all the places in between.

Nancy is a board member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park and teaches "Hemingway's Women" at the University of California, Riverside and the Newberry Library, Chicago.

Hemingway's Passions is a remarkable read. I offer that not just because I am his granddaughter, but because it gives Hemingway enthusiasts a profound insight into how Ernest's brain worked and how he told his stories. In Hemingway's Passions, you embark on a journey into the heart of a man whose life was as compelling as the stories he penned. This book is not merely a biography but an exploration of a soul--my grandfather's soul--torn between the twin poles of love and death, always writing, always living with unparalleled intensity. (from the Foreword)

Using Hemingway's letters--the arena in which he was most unguarded, and the most apt to tell the truth about himself--and passion as the canniest of apertures, Nancy W. Sindelar opens an exciting new window into the essence of the man and his incontrovertible legacy. Perceptive and illuminating. I highly recommend this book!

In Hemingway's Passions, longtime teacher and scholar Nancy Sindelar skillfully weaves Hemingway's several wars and his groundbreaking writing into the mostly untold stories of his wives and lovers. A thoroughly researched, interesting, and most enjoyable read.

Whether one is a Hemingway aficionado or is new to learning about his life and legacy, Hemingway's Passions satisfies all tastes. Writing in the clear and concise yet moving style of the subject himself, Sindelar's contribution to the study of Ernest Hemingway is fresh and revelatory.

With a fresh perspective on Hemingway's legacy, Sindelar's masterful work has beautifully uncovered what really shaped one of history's legendary writers--the women in his life.

With one true sentence after another, Hemingway's Passions offers an intimate and thrilling look at the unique women who enticed Ernest Hemingway and inspired his fiction. Author Nancy Sindelar, an insightful Hemingway aficionado as well as a first-rate storyteller, traces Hemingway's breathtaking ride through the first half of the twentieth century--three wars, four marriages, two plane crashes, bullfights and safaris, affairs and infatuations, conquests and heartbreaks--revealing the adventuresome ardor of our foremost author, celebrity, and daredevil.

Dr. Sindelar shares a comprehensive summary of the passions that informed Hemingway's life and works for all to appreciate, whether readers are familiar with or new to the Hemingway scholarship.

Extraordinarily well researched, written, organized, and presented, Influencing Hemingway: The People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work is a seminal work that is impressively informed and informative.

Publisher: Lyons Press

Pub date: 2024-11-05

Length: 248 pages