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Leicester Hemingway (1915-1982) was an American writer and the brother of Ernest Hemingway. He wrote a biography of his brother, founded a micronation on a raft, and committed suicide after struggling with diabetes.
Jul 3, 2024 · The U.S.’s founders had groused about tyranny and taxation without representation. But Leicester had his own reasons for establishing a new country—in this case, a micronation, an independent ...
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Jun 15, 2021 · In Miami, Ernest's brother Leicester "Les" Hemingway founded a micronation, hunted Nazi submarines, and dipped his feet in mythical healing waters. By JASON KATZ
Leicester Hemingway, the brother of Ernest Hemingway, founded New Atlantis in 1964 on a raft off the coast of Jamaica. He claimed it as a republic and issued his own currency, but the micronation was destroyed by storms in 1966.
Jul 30, 2015 · Learn about the younger brother of Ernest Hemingway's bizarre adventure of founding his own island nation in the Caribbean in 1964. See artifacts from the Republic of New Atlantis, such as its flag, currency, constitution and stamps, at the Ransom Center.
Sep 15, 1982 · Leicester C. Hemingway, a writer and only brother of the late American novelist and Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway, died Monday of a self-inflicted head wound caused by a borrowed handgun at...
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Jan 23, 2023 · In 1964, Ernest Hemingway's younger brother Leicester established New Atlantis off the coast of Jamaica. This is the crazy true story of the micronation.
