Welcome to Curtis L. DeBerg’s

WRESTLING
WITH DEMONS

“It is not likely that Hemingway was a brave man who sought danger for the sake of the sensations that provided him. What is more likely the truth of his own Odyssey is that he struggled with his cowardice and against a secret lust to suicide all his life, that his inner landscape was a nightmare and he spent his nights wrestling with the gods.”

— Norman Mailer, Esquire, 1961

  • “Just as Hemingway mixed his life with his fiction, so DeBerg intertwines his own interesting memoir with Hemingway’s story. In the end, it beautifully illustrates that all of us are shaped by our families, our struggles, and our demons—just as Hemingway was.”

    — Andrew Theising, Author, Hemingway’s Saint Louis: How St. Louisans Shaped His Life and Legacy

  • “DeBerg reimagines the past, bringing it into the present, to gain new insights. It's a fresh, new approach to understanding Hemingway. Amazing!”

    — Christine Whitehead, author, Hemingway’s Daughter

  • "I really like the MDH (i.e., Hemingway's ghost) and CD (Curt DeBerg) dialogues: they communicate information that in this way is much easier to retain than the dry, scholarly works. DeBerg has read an enormous amount and conveyed it with concision."

    --Anton Baer, Academic Editor, Ryde, England, United Kingdom

  • “Wonderful, thoughtful material... DeBerg really did his homework in providing valuable, new information; and his evidence and questions about Hemingway's war experience will be good for the Hemingway world to grapple with.”

    — Rev. Dr. W. Wayne Fraser, retired English professor from Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

  • "DeBerg has something here that fills a previously empty niche. At times, it feels like employing stream-of-consciousness; flowing between real-world observations, political opinion, personal confessional, and Hemingway scholarship...”

    --Rick Reisinger, doctoral student in English at the University of South Florida

More about
Curtis L. DeBerg

CURTIS L. DEBERG earned his Ph.D. and M.S. at Oklahoma State University in business administration (emphasis: financial accounting) and economics, respectively. He authored Traveling the World With Hemingway in Spring 2021 by Wild River Press (Seattle).

More about Ernest M. Hemingway

Ernest M. Hemingway (1899–1961) was an influential American novelist and short story writer, known for his distinctive style and portrayal of the "Lost Generation."

More about Wrestling
with Demons

Part biography, part memoir, and part historical fiction, this illuminating mosaic examines Hemingway's life based on revealing new information about his WWI experience. DeBerg argues that his life was influenced more by other factors, such as jealousy, pride, guilt, and especially fear.

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