A.E. Hotchner, a well-traveled author, playwright and gadabout whose street smarts and famous pals led to a loving, but litigated memoir of Ernest Hemingway, business adventures with Paul Newman and a book about his Depression-era childhood that became a Steven Soderbergh film, died Saturday at age 102.
The son of a furrier who went broke during the Depression, Aaron Edward Hotchner was born in 1917 in St. Louis, a city he would recall with deep affection despite times so dire he claimed to have eaten paper to fight hunger. Hotchner wrote about his youth in, published in 1972 and adapted 20 years later into a Soderbergh film of the same name.
"Once you learn the rhythms of speech of a person, the actual words resonate with you," Hotchner explained during a 2005 interview with The Associated Press. "I can hear him right now. `How do you like it now, gentlemen?' Things he said. You're sort of born with that I guess, a kind of tape that runs through your head."
A.E. Hotchner was truly “The Most Interesting Man in the World”.
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A life well lived. RIPAEHotchner 🙏
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