A. E. Hotchner

Hotchner's play The White House starred Helen Hayes in a Broadway production staged at Henry Miller's Theater in 1964. Hayes played multiple First Ladies from United States history.^[14] It was performed at the White House itself in 1996. In 1993, Welcome to the Club, a musical comedy written with composer Cy Coleman, appeared on Broadway. In addition, Hotchner wrote A Short Happy Life, The Hemingway Hero, Exactly Like You (written with Coleman), and The World of Nick Adams.^{[citation needed]}

Hotchner's play Sweet Prince was produced off-Broadway in 1982, at the Theater Off-Park, starring Keir Dullea and Ian Abercrombie.^[15]

Personal life and philanthropy

With actor Paul Newman, a friend and neighbor, Hotchner founded Newman's Own, Inc in 1982. All profits from this line of food products and other ventures are donated to charities.^[12] In 1988, Hotchner and Newman co-founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a residential summer camp and year-round center for seriously ill children located in Ashford, Connecticut. The original camp was later expanded to become a number of other Hole in the Wall Camps at other locations in the U.S., Ireland, France, and beyond. By 2016, there were 30 camps and programs serving the needs of over 130,000 children and families around the world, as part of the SeriousFun Children's Network.^{[citation needed]}

Hotchner was honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.^[16]

Hotchner resided with his wife Virginia Kiser in Westport, Connecticut, where he spent most weekends, and cared for a grey parrot.^[4] He was known for his collection of birds, and, outside his home in Westport, he had five peacocks.^{[citation needed]} He loved to teach the kids on his road about the different birds and would sit and look at them often. He died on February 15, 2020, at the age of 102.^[17]

Partial bibliography

• The Boyhood Memoirs of A. E. Hotchner: King of the Hill and Looking for Miracles (Missouri History Museum Press, 2007,
  ISBN 978-1-883982-60-7
  )
• The Dangerous American (Random House, 1958)
• Papa Hemingway (Random House, 1966)
• Treasure (Random House, 1970)
• King of the Hill (Harper & Row, 1973,
  ISBN 978-0-06-011964-5
  )
• Looking for Miracles: A Memoir about Loving (Harper & Row, 1975,
  ISBN 978-0-06-011965-2
  )
• Doris Day, Her Own Story (G. K. Hall, 1976,
  ISBN 978-0-8161-6391-5
  )
• Sophia, Living and Loving : Her Own Story (Morrow, 1979,
  ISBN 978-0-688-03428-3
  )
• ISBN 978-0-399-12651-2
  )
• Papa Hemingway : The Ecstasy and Sorrow (Morrow, 1983,
  ISBN 978-0-688-02041-5
  )
• Choice People : The Greats, Near-Greats, and Ingrates I Have Known (Morrow, 1984,
  ISBN 978-0-688-02215-0
  )
• Hemingway and His World (Vendome, 1989,
  ISBN 978-0-86565-115-9
  )
• Blown Away: The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties (Simon & Schuster, 1990,
  ISBN 978-0-671-69316-9
  )
• Louisiana Purchase (Carroll & Graf, 1996,
  ISBN 978-0-7867-0309-8
  )
• The Day I Fired Alan Ladd and Other World War II Adventures (U. of Missouri Press, 2002,
  ISBN 978-0-8262-1432-4
  )
• Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: the Madcap Business Adventure of the Truly Oddest Couple Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner, (Random House, 2003,
  ISBN 978-0-385-51159-9
  ).
• Everyone Comes to
  ISBN 978-0-06-053818-7
  )
• Paul and Me: 53 Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman (Random House Digital, 2010,
  ISBN 978-0-385-53234-1
  )
• O.J. in the Morning, G&T at Night (St. Martin's Press, 2013,
  ISBN 978-1-250-02821-1
  )
• Hemingway in Love (St. Martin's Press, 2015,
  ISBN 978-1-250-07748-6
  )
• The Amazing Adventures of Aaron Broom: A Novel, 2018,
  ISBN 978-0-385-54358-3