Audio Interview with A. E. Hotchner

A. E. Hotchner, editor, novelist, playwright and biographer, talks with Don Swaim in this 1984 interview about Hotchner's job as a bounty hunter for writers, which he notes later spurred a friendship with Ernest Hemingway.

Hotchner discusses the impact that Hemingway had on his life, which led to Hotchner writing Papa Hemingway, a biography of the famous writer. He also talks about the legal battles regarding his popular novel, King of the Hill. Hotchner has also written Choice People, The Man Who Lived at the Ritz, and Looking for Miracles.

 

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in their entirety.