Miniseries

Peter Coyote

Narrator (voice)

Jeff Daniels

Ernest Hemingway (voice)

Michael Kitakis

Himself – Writer

Edna O'Brien

Herself – Writer

Tobias Wolff

Self

Mary Dearborn

Herself – Biographer

Abraham Verghese

Himself – Writer

Mary Karr

Herself – Writer

Susan Beegel

Herself – Literary Scholar

Marc Dudley

Himself – Literary Scholar

Mario Vargas Llosa

Himself – Writer

Patrick Hemingway

Himself – Hemingway's Second Son

Ernest Hemingway

Himself (archive footage)