Pete Carvill, reporter, writer and editor will tell the mostly-true story of the ‘friendship’ between Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles, two of the twentieth century’s great male egos.The first meeting between Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles took place 1937 during the making of the documentary film The Spanish Earth, and ended in thrown punches and exchanged insults. This most unlikely of pairings would go on to have a tumultuous friendship that would last for the next twenty-five years. Hemingway (1899 – 1985) and Welles (1915 – 1961) found their lives and art intertwining, their fates gradually beginning to mirror one another..
Lyrical and unafraid to tackle the difficulty of conveying the lives of two legendary men. Pete’s fascinating literary biography explores their intersecting paths, passions and love for Spain. Brought together by the Spanish Civil War and bound by bullfighting and high life.“There are fine moments in this book that feel like little treasures from an unpublished chapter of A Moveable Feast that finally found their way to the page.” --Brin-Jonathan Butler.Pete Carvill, Runcorn-born, York-matured, seasoned in Sheffield and Tokyo, London-trained, honorary Canadian, living in Berlin and presently visiting Vienna. He is an experienced reporter, writer and editor for over fifteen years covering news from Europe for various newspapers such as the New York Post, The Washington Post and the Guardian. When not writing, he can usually be found in a forest, at a hockey game or watching two people punch lumps out of each other.
Pete’s first book Death of a Boxer was named 'Sports Book of the Year' by the Daily Mail and the Irish Times. |
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