This book has more than once been likened to such classics as Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Tom's debut novel, Beyond Nostalgia, was released in February of 2011. They spend part of their time in Carmel, Maine.

He lives in Hobe Sound, Florida, with his wife Blanche and their ill-tempered, but loveable, Jack Russell terrier, Ginger. He has also been a mailman, a salesman, an entrepreneur and more. During his working career, he has done everything from working on a railroad gang in the Colorado Rockies to driving a taxicab in Manhattan. Tom Winton was born and raised in New York City. That's when things really get interesting. Once their time together ends, the story is still not over. Over the next four days, Jack Phelan and Ernest Hemingway travel to some of the legendary author's old haunts and rub shoulders with many of his long gone friends. And that its purpose is to change the world's perception of the swaggering, hard-knuckled, macho myth he has become. Hem has been sent from above to help determine whether or not Jack has what it takes to write a book for 'The Main Man above the clouds.' But what Ernest doesn't know is that the book is going to be about him. Standing alongside him is an aged Papa Hemingway, and he's staring straight into Jack's buggy eyes. Instead his eyes spring wide open and he is absolutely stupefied. Thinking it's a tourist crowding him, he turns to confront the man. As he admires the house and grounds, he suddenly realizes someone is standing right next to him. He's leaning on the brick wall in front of the Hemingway Home now turned museum. But minutes after he blacks out, he finds himself in Key West, Florida. After Jack gets into a highly unlikely accident, he's flown by helicopter to the nearest hospital in West Palm Beach where he remains in a coma for four days. He's got an exceptionally sharp mind and is a self-educated Hemingway aficionado. He lives in South Florida, and though he mows lawns for a living, he's not what you might think.

Jack Phelan is a forty-two-year-old underachiever. But despite their differences, they both learn some invaluable lessons from one another during their few days together. One is painfully ordinary, the other world famous. The novel also examines the lives of two very different men. It is an entertaining weave of heartrending emotion, humor, and a sprinkling of little known facts. Four Days with Hemingway's Ghost is not a story of spooks and spirits.

Beyond Nostalgia by Tom Winton