"Orson Welles and Ernest Hemingway's histrionic lives both occupied the twentieth century like Moby Dick in a goldfish bowl. Finally, a book offers the rare amusement and pleasure of how their mythic paths crossed on the world's stage. There are fine moments from Carvill's book that felt like little treasures from an unpublished chapter of A Moveable Feast that finally found their way to the page." - Brin-Jonathan Butler, author of the PEN-shortlisted The Domino Diaries and RBC Taylor Prize-nominated The Grandmaster  

Coming out in 2025, A Duel of Bulls: Hemingway and Welles in Love and War will tell the mostly-true story of the ‘friendship’ between Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles.

The Hemingway-Welles connection begins in 1937 when the pair first meet in New York where Welles is hired to do the narration for the Hemingway-written film The Spanish Earth. A fistfight later, the pair began a friendship that would last for over 25 years until Hemingway’s death. Until his own death in 1985, Welles spent the rest of his career grappling with Hemingway’s vision of Spain.

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