Stories & Heroes: My Reflections on Ken Burns’ Hemingway Documentary

Michael J. Vowles
6 min readJul 28, 2021

Last week I finished watching Ken Burns’ recent documentary on the life of Ernest Hemingway, which was honestly a match made in heaven for me. Burns is my favorite documentary filmmaker and Hemingway is one of my favorite novelists.

Whenever I hear that Ken Burns is releasing anything, I get excited. The quality never dips an inch, and each one…

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Michael J. Vowles

Freelance writer, occasional traveler, full-time ice cream taster. I run a blog at https://tumbleweedwrites.com where I ramble with enthusiasm.