Reeling from his split with Martha, Hemingway attaches himself to the U.S. Army as it moves through Normandy and liberates Paris. After the war he tries to start a new life with Mary Welsh but is beset with personal tragedies and professional mishaps. Hemingway publishes The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway wins the Nobel Prize in Literature but eventually is overcome by addiction, physical trauma and depression.
Hemingway was broadcast on SBS ONE at Saturday 24 July 2021, 11:19.