PHOTOS: JFK Library archives will help bring Ernest Hemingway to life

A brand new documentary on Ernest Hemingway — powered by huge however little-known archives saved on the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston — is shedding new mild on the acclaimed novelist. “Hemingway,” by longtime collaborators Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, premiering on PBS on three consecutive nights beginning April 5, takes a extra nuanced have a look at the writer and his longstanding popularity as an alcoholic, adventurer, outdoorsman and bullfight-loving misogynist who struggled with inside turmoil that finally led to his dying by suicide at age 61. The reality concerning the man many take into account America’s best Twentieth-century novelist — whose concise writing type made him an outsized superstar who grew to become an emblem of unrepentant American masculinity — is far more advanced, Novick stated.