A book about Hemingway by his brother

The biographical literature on Hemingway is not rich. That is why the book about Hemingway's life, published this year in the USA, was met with great interest, especially since its author is Lester Hemingway, the brother of the deceased writer. The material, completely reliable, is collected from personal observations. The author's goal is not to emphasize Hemingway's literary significance. His task is to acquaint readers with the family, with the writer's personal life, with the process of his creativity. This book refutes many of the fabrications that some bourgeois journalists have created around Hemingway's personality. As the author points out, Hemingway himself expressed a desire for a book to be written about his life. Lester Hemingway is sixteen years younger than his brother. Therefore, he collected information about the writer's childhood and adolescence from his mother, sisters and relatives. For us, the book is interesting as a document about the life of the talented novelist. We can agree with the statement of the famous researcher of Hemingway's work, Carlos Baker, who wrote in the weekly "Saturday Review": "The portrait of the brother, painted by the author of the book, is reliable, understandable and human." A great influence on the young Hemingway was exerted by his parents. Hemingway inherited his passion for adventure, travel and hunting from his father, a doctor by profession. His mother, an energetic woman, passionately loved music and continued to play until old age.