Hemingway and Sun Valley

Summary:

In the 1920s and 30s Ernest Hemingway built himself into a legend. He was a big game hunter, Parisian, skier, and author. Yet every piece of that legend was soon duplicated in the destination resort of Sun Valley, Idaho. Sun Valley not only had real imported Austrian ski instructors and a Tyrolean chalet from a movie set, but had a live rodeo and cowboy hunting guides. Sun Valley is also famous for another reason. It is the place where Hemingway killed himself.

In Hemingway and Sun Valley, Moore explores a unique story of life imitating art. Hemingway and Sun Valley narrates the birth and growth of the Hemingway legend and shows how what Hemingway built with the power of his imagination eventually came to life as a destination resort that he both lived and died in.