Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)
Jeff Daniels
Ernest Hemingway (voice)
Michael Kitakis
Himself – Writer
Edna O'Brien
Herself – Writer
Tobias Wolff
Himself – Writer
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)