“An invaluable book for anyone interested in Hemingway or the development of a major creative mind.” — Scott Turow, author of “Identical” and “Presumed Innocent”

“Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park” is part time capsule, part biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author. This hardcover coffee table book features never-before-seen items such as family photos, teenage diaries, bullfighting tickets, love letters — even a dental x-ray. “Hidden Hemingway” is a chance for a new generation to discover a literary genius and for fans to see him as more than just the larger-than-life myth he created for himself.

“Hidden Hemingway” also includes one of the final letters Hemingway wrote, as he was undergoing electroshock treatment at the Mayo Clinic. These documents, photographs, and ephemera trace the trajectory of the life of an American literary legend.

The items showcased in “Hidden Hemingway” are more than stage dressing for a literary life, more than marginalia. They provide definition—and, in some cases, documentation—of Hemingway’s ambition, heartbreak, literary triumphs and trials, and joys and tragedies. Hemingway’s stature as an author draws readers, biographers and historians to his work. The wealth of material he left behind makes him such a compelling, engaging, and often polarizing figure.

For Hemingway, the material he saved was both autobiography and research. He gathered data and details that made the life lived in his books more authentic. The authors of Hidden Hemingway have strived to do the same, telling a life story through items that illuminate Hemingway’s life and legacy.