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Exclusive: The life of legendary author Ernest Hemingway is set to become a ten-part TV drama.

LA’s Avatar Entertainment has secured rights to Mary V. Dearborn’s Ernest Hemingway: A Biography and was at MIPCOM this week shopping the project to buyers. Larry Robinson, Head of Avatar Entertainment, will exec produce the series.

Dearborn’s 750-page biography follows the author’s life from his middle-class childhood in Oak Park, Illinois, to his life as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I, his career as a journalist in Chicago, his life among other preeminent authors in Paris and the establishment of Hemingway as the world’s most famous novelists. Gersh represents the Hemingway estate, but Dearborn’s book about the author’s life sit outside of that.

The biography, which has received praise from The Washington Post as “the most fully faceted portrait of Hemingway now available,” extensively...

On September 22, 2010, the Boston Film Festival premiered the documentary Norman Mailer: The American directed by Joseph Mantegna. I was eager to see this film as two years ago I had been interviewed for it by the director. With a girlfriend, I drove from Philadelphia to Boston to arrive just in time for the premiere. Mailer devotees were out in droves, though the Mailer family was absent, having been afforded the opportunity to view the documentary in the privacy of their homes. Biographer Mary Dearborn, author of Mailer, offered keen observations as a narrator. Mailer's first wife was Bea Silverman (1944-52) who has a daughter, Susie, whom Norman always wanted me to meet. She is a psychologist and he felt she and I could relate to one another. Bea and Susie live in South American. Mailer's third...