Sharon Hamilton

A tantalizing pronouncement appears at the start of We Were the Bullfighters: “This is a work of fiction, except for the parts that are true.” A debut novelist and a member of the Hemingway Society, Marianne Miller draws upon the lives of Ernest Hemingway and a man known as the “Jesse James of Canada,” the notorious bank robber Norman “Red”…

Thinking back on the summer of 1929, when he was hanging out with the expatriate literary community in Paris, the novelist Morley Callaghan recalled how Ernest Hemingway’s lonely expression would change to a “quick sweet smile” whenever he entered a bar and saw friends. After their time together ended, Callaghan continued to follow reports of Hemingway’s life and watched as he became both a successful writer and a global…

I first encountered the magic of Field of Dreams as a teenager, when I saw the 1989 film with Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones. Like most viewers, I adored the story’s healing arc. One day an Iowa farmer hears a supernatural voice: “If you build it, he will come.” The farmer knows it’s crazy to turn under part of his cornfield to build a baseball…