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Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for more than two decades, longer than anywhere else. He bought a home -- naming it the Finca Vigia -- with his third wife, Martha Gellhorn and wrote his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea there. In Cuba, Papa Hemingway found a sense of serenity and enrichment that he couldn't find anywhere else. Now, through more than a hundred color photographs and accompanying text, Robert Wheeler takes us through the streets and near the water's edge of Havana, and closer to the relationship Hemingway shared with the Cuban people, their landscape, their politics, and their culture. Wheeler has followed Hemingway's path across continents -- from La Closerie des Lilas Caf in Paris to Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West to El Floridita in Havana -- seeking to capture through photography and the written word the essence of one of the greatest writers in the English language.



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Robert Wheeler

Since reading his first Hemingway novel in 1986, Robert Wheeler has been a Hemingway enthusiast. Robert was moved by the humanistic writing of the man - a writer capable of transcending his readers to foreign settings and into the hearts and minds of his protagonists. Hemingway and his work have inspired Robert to travel throughout France, Italy, Spain, Africa, and Cuba, where he has sought to gain insight into the motivation behind Hemingway's books and short stories. As a teacher, lecturer, and photojournalist, Robert set out to capture and interpret the Paris that Ernest Hemingway experienced in A Moveable Feast. Through his journals and photographs, Robert portrays the intimate connection Hemingway had with the woman he never stopped loving, Hadley, and with the city he loved most, Paris.

Robert currently lives in New Castle, New Hampshire with his wife, Meme, and daughters, Emma and Helen. His next project, which will appear in 2016, will involve Hemingway's deep and personal connection to the people and to the culture of Cuba.



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