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Hemingway

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE

Monday–Wednesday, April 5–7, 8/7c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org)

ERNEST HEMINGWAY LIVED and loved as passionately as he wrote, becoming as famous and fabled as his Nobel Prize–winning creations. In six enlightening, often harrowing hours over three nights, Hemingway marks only the second time the prolific Ken Burns has profiled an American author (Mark Twain was the first). He and frequent directing-producing partner Lynn Novick present this towering talent with all of his flaws exposed.

Fellow writers revere and). Another admirer, the eloquent Irish author Edna O’Brien, laments his self-aggrandizing public persona: “He lost the best part of himself by trying to impress the audience.”