cast
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Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)
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Jeff Daniels
Ernest Hemingway (voice)
- Michael Kitakis Himself – Writer
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Edna O'Brien
Herself – Writer
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Tobias Wolff
Himself – Writer
- Mary Dearborn Herself – Biographer
- Abraham Verghese Himself – Writer
- Mary Karr Herself – Writer
- Susan Beegel Herself – Literary Scholar
- Marc Dudley Himself – Literary Scholar
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Himself – Writer
- Patrick Hemingway Himself – Hemingway's Second Son
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Ernest Hemingway
Himself (archive footage)
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Patricia Clarkson
Grace Hemingway (voice) / Pauline Pfeiffer (voice)
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Keri Russell
Dorothy Parker (voice) / Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (voice)
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Mary-Louise Parker
Mary Hemingway (voice) / Marcelline Hemingway (voice)
- Olivia Gilliatt Agnes Von Kurowsky (voice)
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Dave Quay
F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice)
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Josh Lucas
The New Republic (voice)
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Joe Morton
Ralph Ellison (voice)
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Meryl Streep
Martha Gellhorn (voice)
- Arlo Hill Gregory Hemingway (voice)
