{"product_id":"9781501126031","title":"Portrait of Hemingway","description":"The definitive sketch of one of America’s greatest writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn May 13, 1950, Lillian Ross’s first portrait of Ernest Hemingway was published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker.\u003c\/i\u003e It was an account of two days Hemingway spent in New York in 1949 on his way from Havana to Europe. This candid and affectionate profile was tremendously controversial at the time, to the great surprise of its author. \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e said, “The piece immediately conveys to the reader the kind of man Hemingway was—hard-hitting, warm, and exuberantly alive.” It remains the classic eyewitness account of the legendary writer, and it is reproduced here with the preface Lillian Ross prepared for an edition of \u003ci\u003ePortrait\u003c\/i\u003e in 1961.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, and to celebrate the centenary of this event, Ms. Ross wrote a second portrait of Hemingway for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, detailing the friendship the two struck up after the completion of the first piece. It is included here in an amended form.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179791073520,"sku":"9781501126031","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781501126031_p0.jpg?v=1763710918","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781501126031","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}