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- The Volatile Life of Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway’s Lifelong Struggle with Mental Illness
- The Death of Ernest Hemingway and Its Controversial Aftermath
- Inside The Devastating “Hemingway Curse”
Although Ernest Hemingway was a prolific author who won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work, he led a life full of tragedy and frequently struggled with his mental health. According to the Los Angeles Times, Hemingway’s mother, Grace, was a controlling woman who dressed him as a little girl when he was a child. Sh...
According to the Independent, Ernest Hemingway told a friend after his father’s death, “My life was more or less shot out from under me, and I was drinking much too much entirely through my own fault.” Despite several doctors telling him to stop drinking because he’d developed liver damage as early as 1937, when he was just 38 years old, Hemingway ...
In April 1961, Hemingway boarded a small plane to travel from his home in Idaho to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. According to PBS, when the plane stopped in South Dakota to refuel, Hemingway reportedly tried to walk straight into the propeller — but the pilot cut it off just in time. During his second two-month stay at the clinic, Hemingway underwe...
In the decades following Ernest Hemingway’s suicide, multiple other members of his family took their own lives, as well. According to Biography, his sister Ursula deliberately overdosed on pills in 1966, his brother Leicester shot himself in 1982, and his granddaughter Margaux, a successful supermodel, took a fatal dose of a sedative in 1996. Anoth...
Mar 25, 2019 · Ernest Hemingway believed big-game fishing should be a fair contest between fish and fisherman. Ernest Hemingway returned from the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, a time when fishermen were landing giant bluefin tuna on rod and reel in the shallow waters off Nova Scotia. But they found it nearly impossible to land giants or marlin in the deep ...
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Apr 1, 2021 · In December 1928, when Hemingway was 29, his father killed himself, shooting himself with a family revolver after a long period of both physical and financial setbacks. Hemingway was deeply shaken ...
Jul 21, 2015 · During 1942 and 1943, Hemingway spent less time writing than he did aboard his 38-ft. wooden fishing boat, armed with grenades and submachine guns, scanning the Gulf Stream for German U-boats...
Oct 1, 2015 · Oct. 1, 2015. In 1898, the year before Ernest Hemingway was born, his parents bought 200 feet of frontage on Walloon Lake in northern Michigan, out in the backlands of Petoskey, a coastal resort ...
Apr 9, 2021 · Ernest Hemingway at his home in Cuba (Photo by A.E. Hotchner, courtesy of PBS). Ernest Hemingway was a terrible person. He was selfish and egomaniacal, a faithless husband and a treacherous friend ...
Apr 14, 2021 · Drs. Rome and Butt were two of the Clinic’s top physicians at the time, but it is likely their treatments only exacerbated the writer’s afflictions — and that the team overlooked a key driver of Hemingway’s deteriorating mental state. Rosengren says Dr. Butt initially diagnosed Hemingway with a “mild case of diabetes and an enlarged ...
