Trivia

He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with dual degrees in history (A.B.) and law (J.D.), and was admitted to the Missouri State Bar in 1941, practicing law only briefly before the outbreak of World War II.

In 1982, Hotchner partnered with Paul Newman, his longtime Westport, Connecticut friend and neighbor, to found a salad dressing business, "Newman's Own," with profits going to charity, and which has since evolved into a diversified food manufacturing company which has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charity since its founding.

Father of Tracy Hotchner.

Hotchner and Paul Newman each contributed $20,000 towards the founding of their food business, Newman's Own.

In 1988, Hotchner and Paul Newman also co-founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a residential summer camp and year-round center for seriously ill children and their families, located in Ashford, Connecticut.

Son of Tillie (Rossman), a synagogue/Sunday school administrator, and Samuel Hotchner, a jeweler. His father and maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants.

A.E. Hotchner first met Ernest Hemingway in 1948 on assignment for Cosmopolitan Magazine. In order to get in the door, Mr. Hotchner accepted a "spec" offer from the editor, which paid $300 for every famous author of the day he could successfully get to agree to a story. Not expecting Mr. Hemingway's acceptance, Mr. Hotchner flew to Cuba and scored the big interview, thus securing his reputation as a writer. This began a lifelong kinship between them, with Mr. Hotchner accompanying Mr. Hemingway across the globe on many adventures. In 2010 Mr. Hotchner compiled decades of hand-written notes and personal anecdotes of his time with the author into the book, "The Good Life According to Hemingway," with chapters denoted to reflections on Mr. Hemingway's favored subjects, from hunting to fishing, drinking to women, and bull fighting to war.