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Collins Hemingway is the author of nine books, including a new one on Jane Austen, and innumerable articles. He is recognized for his ability to make challenging concepts accessible to laypersons and compelling to experts. He is a respected authority on Jane Austen’s writing and the Regency period in which she lived. His fiction captures who she is as a person; his nonfiction captures who she is as a writer. His essays and lectures have challenged or expanded many accepted views on the British author. His other nonfiction books are detailed below.
A graduate of the University of Arkansas, Phi Beta Kappa, Hemingway has a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Oregon, including a concentration on eighteenth-century literature. His career has combined the humanities with technology, and intellectual analysis with operational skills.
His latest book (2024) is Jane Austen and the Creation of Modern Fiction: Six Novels in “a Style Entirely New,” which investigates Austen’s development as a writer and shows how her innovations as a prose stylist set the course for modern fiction. His literary fiction based on Austen’s life demonstrates how a woman of Austen’s intelligence and passion would have handled all the things that Regency life could throw at a woman.
Collins spoke at the annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023. He was JASNA’s Traveling Lecturer for the West Region, 2020-22. He was the first international Zoom lecturer for the Jane Austen Society of Australia, in 2022. He has published in the academic journals of JASNA and the Jane Austen Society of Australia and is a regular contributor to the magazine Jane Austen’s Regency World. He is board secretary of the North American Friends of Chawton House.
Hemingway lives in Central Oregon with his wife, Wendy. Together they have three adult sons and three granddaughters. He supports the Oregon Community Foundation, the Deschutes Land Trust, and other civic organizations providing social services in Central Oregon.
Austen Books
Jane Austen and the Creation of Modern Fiction: Six Novels in “a Style Entirely New.” Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 2024. Print and digital.
The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen: A Trilogy, 2015-2017. Historical fiction based on the life of the author. Print and digital.
General Books
Gates, Bill and Collins Hemingway. Business @ the Speed of Thought. New York: Warner Books, 1999. Print and digital.
Rubinfeld, Arthur and Collins Hemingway. Built for Growth: Expanding Your Business Around the Corner or Across the World. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Wharton School Publishing, 2005. Print.
Baker, Dan, Cathy Greenberg and Collins Hemingway. What Happy Companies Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Company for the Better. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006. Print and digital.
Marcus, Robert and Collins Hemingway. The Fifth Wave: A Strategic Vision for Mobile Internet Innovation, Investment and Return, 2012. Print and digital.
Breznitz, Shlomo and Collins Hemingway. Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom. New York: Ballantine Books, 2012. Print and digital.
For more details on each book, see the separate Books menu.