https://dan-bronson.com/tags/books-and-authors/Recent content in Books and Authors on Dan Bronson — Author, ScreenwriterHugoen-usSun, 25 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://dan-bronson.com/posts/hemingway-the-god-that-failed/Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://dan-bronson.com/posts/hemingway-the-god-that-failed/<p>My favorite moment in Sudden Impact, the fourth Dirty Harry Callahan movie, is an angry exchange between Bradford Dillman’s arrogant Captain Briggs and Eastwood’s Dirty Harry…</p> <p>“Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am?”</p> <p>“Yeah, you’re a legend in your own mind.”</p> <p>Ernest Hemingway was a legend in his own time…and, it turns out, in his own mind—a fact well-documented in the recent Ken Burns documentary exploring the gap between the man and the self-created myth. As a teenager growing up in the late fifties and early sixties, I knew nothing of the man behind the mask. I knew only the myth.</p>