A. E. Hotchner

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Aaron Edward Hotchner, (June 28, 1920- ) is an American editor, novelist, playwright and biographer. He was born in St. Louis and attended Soldan High School. He graduated from Washington University Law School in 1940, practiced law briefly, then served as a military journalist. Hotchner is best known for Papa Hemingway, his 1966 biography of close friend Ernest Hemingway, whose work he had adapted for plays and TV. King of the Hill, A. E. Hotchner's evocative memoir about growing up in St. Louis during the Great Depression, was captured on film in 1993. He earned admiration for giving all profits from a joint food venture with actor Paul Newman to support the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp and other charities.

[edit] Partial Bibliography

The Dangerous American (Random House, 1958)
Papa Hemingway (Random House, 1966)
Treasure (Random House, 1970)
King of the Hill (Harper & Rowe, 1973, ISBN 0060119640)
Looking for Miracles : a memoir about loving (Harper & Row, 1975, ISBN 0060119659)
Doris Day, Her Own Story (G.K. Hall, 1976, ISBN 081616391X)
Sophia, Living and Loving : Her Own Story (Morrow, 1979, ISBN 0688034284)
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz (Putnam, 1981, ISBN 0399126511)
Papa Hemingway : The Ecstasy and Sorrow (Morrow, 1983, ISBN 0688020410)
Choice People : The Greats, Near-Greats, and Ingrates I Have Known (Morrow, 1984, ISBN 0688022154)
Hemingway and His World (Vendome, 1989, ISBN 0865651159)
Blown away : The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties (Simon & Shuster, 1990, ISBN 0671693166)
Louisiana Purchase (Carroll & Graf, 1996, ISBN 0786703091)
The Day I Fired Alan Ladd and Other World War II Adventures (U. of Missouri Press, 2002, ISBN 0826214320)
Everyone Comes to Elaine’s (Harper Entertainment, 2004, ISBN 006053818X)