The stunning memoir that could make Hemingway jealous

Ask a Bookseller · Nov 1, 2019 · 2m

Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. This week, we spoke to Jinny Amundson from Old Fox Books in Annapolis, Md.Beryl Markham was the first person to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, from east to west. She also wrote the kind of sentences that made Ernest Hemingway jealous.“Hemingway was a huge fan, and he wishes he had written something like [Markham],” said bookseller Jinny Amundson. “It’s really lovely.”Markham’s memoir, “West with the Night,” was first published in the 1940s, and it tells the story of her…