• For Whom the Bell Tolls
    drawing of bridge

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Ernest Hemingway Photo Ernest Hemingway Milan 1918 Ernest Hemingway Photo
David M. Dorsen David M. Dorsen with Mere Oliveira (Pilar) at For Whom the Bell Tolls Opera World Premiere Brasilia. Photo by Robson Cesco. David M. Dorsen bowing at curtain call. For Whom the Bell Tolls Opera World Premiere Brasilia. Photo by Robson Cesco. David M. Dorsen with Robert Jordan's dynamite from For Whom the Bell Tolls Opera World Premiere Brasilia David M. Dorsen with composer Brian Wilbur Grundstrom in front of Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro
David M. Dorsen
David M. Dorsen

David Dorsen is an attorney and author. He is an opera lover and created the concept for the opera based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. He is the author of the prize-winning biography, "Judge Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era," published by Harvard University Press, and "The Unexpected Scalia: A Conservative Justice's Liberal Opinions," published by Cambridge University Press. Dorsen served as Assistant Chief Counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee. His recent novel, entitled “Moses v. Trump”, a nonfiction book, is based on the Watergate Scandal. Dorsen has taught at Duke, Georgetown, and George Washington Universities.