Books by A. E. Hotchner

Examines the mysterious death of Rolling Stones band member Brian Jones, the harsh reality of the myths surrounding the band's success, and how Jones' death marked the end of the idealism of the 1960s.

Examines the mysterious death of Rolling Stones band member Brian Jones, the harsh reality of the myths surrounding the band's success, and how Jones' death marked the end of the idealism of the 1960s.

The author describes the actors, actresses, and celebrities he has known and shares their revelations about important moments in their personal lives.

In this World War II memoir, a former G.I. tells how, though he wanted to go to the front, he was ordered to serve his country by writing and performing in skits to entertain the troops and bolster their morale. Hotchner tells of his many escapades, and shares anecdotes about the famous people he encountered along the way, including Clark Gable and Alan Ladd, whom he actually did fire, as the title says.

The correspondence between literary giant Ernest Hemingway and his friend and informal agent A. E. Hotchner is presented in this collection of letters, cables, and cards that provide much valuable information about Hemingway's late career.

The screenwriter who adapted Hemingway's story "After the Storm" to the screen offers his personal reminiscences about Hemingway as well as the complete script of the play and his thoughts on the adaptation of literary works for the screen. Original.

You know the name -- you've heard of the people -- and now the doors to Elaine's, New York City's famed night spot, are finally open. And no one, not even Elaine herself, is standing guard at the door.

Elaine Kaufman's creation certainly came from humble beginnings. Forty years ago the now legendary restaurant on Eighty-eighth Street and Second Avenue was deemed too far uptown for anyone of importance to frequent. It was there that Elaine served, catered to, and nursed young starving writers and artists of the day.

As these customers grew and matured into Woody Allen and Norman Mailer, Andy Warhol and Jack Nicholson, Elaine's grew with them. By the time these artists were deemed legends, well, Elaine's had already become legendary.

A. E. Hotchner was there at the beginning, is still there today, and has a table reserved for tomorrow. There is no better person than "Hotch" to tell the story of Elaine's. He was there for every bit of it.

They're all inside: Jackie O., Truman Capote, Frank Sinatra, Liz Smith, Joan Rivers, Lauren Bacall, Judy and Liza. The stories are all here. The night Jackie came to dance. The night Sinatra snubbed The Godfather author, Mario Puzo. When Sinatra's ex-wife, Mia Farrow, asked Michael Caine to introduce her to Woody Allen. When George Steinbrenner was turned away at the door the night his Yankees beat the Mets in the Subway Series.

Everyone Comes to Elaine's is more than a story about New York City. It's more than a story of celebrities. This is the story of a "family"with a domineering mother who will stop at nothing to protect those dearest to her. This is an American saga.

Elaine's is a microcosm of the people and events of the last forty years, from the sixties, when Beatles and Stones held forth there, to the start of the twenty-first century, when painful wakes were held for the regulars who perished on September 11. Just as Gertrude Stein presided over her salon in Paris in the twenties, Elaine now presides over hers.

So pull up a seat. You're invited. Everyone comes to Elaine's. Enjoy!

An inside story of the celebrated New York City restaurant traces its forty-year history as recounted by its proprietress and the many famous patrons whose marriages, books, movies, deals, and plays have taken significant turns there.

Hemingway's exotic, exciting life is captured in an illustrated biography of the writer and his world.

Hemingway was a dedicated fisherman, and he wrote often about fishing, both in his fiction works and in nonfiction pieces. Here is a collection of all his writing on the subject, from columns in the Toronto Star to the Nick Adams stories to ISLANDS IN THE STREAM.

Join Paul Newman and friends in the kitchen and at the table with more than 70 kid- and family-friendly recipes. In 1988, Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner established the first Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases, using the profits from their food company, Newman's Own. Today, over 7,000 children attend the camps each year. The spirit of sharing and good times fills The Hole in the Wall Gang Cookbook. Letter and poems from the campers, candid photographs, and a preface from Paul Newman make using the book a treat. So tie on an apron, roll up your sleeves, and get ready for some good eating with recipes like: JULIA ROBERTS'S Baked Potato Soup NEWMAN'S Favorite Chicken Soup DAVID LETTERMAN'S Baked Chicken in A+ Sauce NATHAN LANE'S Turkey Meatballs and Spahetti BILL IRWIN'S Three-Cheese Potato Gratin ANJELICA HUSTON'S Bandito Broccoli JUDY COLLIN'S Brown Sugar Carrot Coins NEWMAN'S Own Sweet New England Popcorn WHOOPI GOLDBERG'S Classic American Carrot Cake with a Twist MICHAEL BOLTON'S White Chocolate Brownie Hot Fudge Sundae ROSEMARY CLOONEY'S Two-Fisted Chocolate Chip Cookies

Describes how the authors conceived a venture to promote a brand of all-natural foods to poke fun at traditional marketing, their surprise success and its offbeat growth into a full-fledged enterprise, and the decision to use the company's profits to promote philanthropic causes. Originally published as Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

An autobiographical novel portrays the author's youthful days in St. Louis during the thirties and the impact of family and friends on his values and beliefs.

Recalls the summer of 1936 when the author bluffed his way as a Civilian Conservation Corps camp counselor and took his younger brother along with him into dangers, near disaster, and near disgrace.

The art treasures of Paris are the prize in this tale of intrigue and suspense, set in Nazi-occupied Paris and featuring a cast of characters including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goerring, Coco Chanel, Lindbergh, and Hemingway.

Recipes for foods are accompanied by anecdotes about Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner.

Coinciding with the release of Papa starring Anthony Hopkins and Meg Ryan-the New York Times bestseller and classic portrait of one of America's greatest writers

Between 1948 and 1961, Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner traveled together from New York to Paris to Spain, fished the waters off Cuba, hunted in Idaho, ran with the bulls in Pamplona-and once Hotchner even masqueraded as a matador and Hemingway's manager in an actual bullfight. Everywhere they went, they talked. For fourteen years, Hotchner and Hemingway shared their thoughts and as Hemingway reminisced about his childhood, recalled the Paris literary scene of the twenties, and recounted the real events that lay behind his fiction, Hotchner took it all down. His notes on the many occasions he spent with his friend Papa-in Venice and Rome, in Key West, on the Riviera, and in Ketchum, Idaho, where Hemingway died by his own hand in 1961-provide the material for this utterly profound, and truthfully compassionate best-selling memoir about the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. With a new introduction by the author and with never before published photographs from his personal collection, Papa Hemingway is a mesmerizing portrait.

In 1978, Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner made a foray into local gourmet shops bearing bottles of their homemade salad dressing. Freewheeling, irreverent entrepreneurs, they conceived of their venture as a great way to poke fun at the mundane method of traditional marketing. Much to their surprise, their products spurred a tidal wave of enthusiasm in the country’s supermarkets. What had started as a lark quickly escalated into a full-fledged business, the first company to mass-market all-natural foods, Newman’s Own became a major player in the food business. The company’s profits were donated to medical research, education, the environment, children’s programs, and to the creation of the eight "Hole in the Wall Gang" camps for children with serious illnesses.

Newman and Hotchner recount the picaresque saga of their unexpected success in SHAMELESS EXPLOITATION IN PURSUIT OF THE COMMON GOOD. In alternating voices, playing off each other in classic “Odd Couple” style, they describe how they systematically disregarded the advice of experts and relied instead on instinct, imagination, and common sense. They write about how they hurdled obstacle after obstacle, share their hilarious misadventures, and reveal their off-beat solutions to conventional problems. Even their approach to charity is decidedly different: Every year, they give away all the company’s profits and start over again. The results of this amazing generosity is brought to life in heartwarming stories about the children at their camps.

From the rare glimpses into Newman’s private life to A. E. Hotchner’s wonderfully told tales, SHAMELESS EXPLOITATION IN PURSUIT OF THE COMMON GOOD is the perfect nonmanagement book, at once playful, informative, and inspirational.

Traces Sophia Loren's rise from slum urchin of Pozzuoli to reigning queen of the cinema world, highlighting her early poverty, illegitimacy, criminal prosecution for adultery, marriage, and fight to have a child and surveying the triumphs and tribulations of her filmmaking career.