Mark Kurlansky on The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway: Memoir

A New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award-winning author, Mark Kurlansky is a recipient of a Bon Appétit American Food and Entertaining Award for Food Writer of the Year, and a Glenfiddich Food and Drink Award for food book of the year. He is presenting two very different titles at Miami Book Fair 2022. In The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway (Books & Books), Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and work of Ernest Hemingway while drawing parallels to his own. In this memoir-cum-biography, he offers an in-depth analysis of the places and people in Hemingway’s life. In Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media (Tilbury House Publishers), Kurlansky shifts his attention to young readers with a book that alights on the great injustices of the Middle Ages, the big lies of Stalin and Hitler and their terrible consequences, and the reckless lies of contemporary demagogues, which are amplified through social media. The modern age has provided ever-more-effective ways of spreading lies, but it has also given us the scientific method, which is the most effective tool for finding what is true.