Title
Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways
Document Type
Book
Annotation
Memoir by Hemingway’s personal secretary and later wife of his youngest son, Gregory. Focuses on her time spent in France, Spain, and Cuba during Hemingway’s final years and turbulent relationship with Gregory ending with his death in 2001. Hemingway discusses her various roles as the author’s assistant, traveling companion, confidante, and “surrogate” daughter along with her considerable work sorting through and organizing his literary estate after his death. Recalls meetings with such notables as Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer, and Fidel Castro. Includes over thirty black-and-white photographs and index.
Date
2004
COinS
Citation
Hemingway, Valerie. Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.