Wife Number 3: Martha Gellhorn
About a year ago, I began doing posts on the wives and got sidetracked on other Hemingway issues. I posted on Hadley and Pauline, then diverted. Hemingway was married to Hadley Richardson for about seven years, i.e. 1921 to 1927. He was married to Pauline Pfeiffer from 1927 to 1940. He was married to Martha Gellhorn from […]
Valerie Danby-Smith Hemingway: Odd happenings
Hemingway often took younger women under his wing and wanted them around. Sometimes it was intellectually stimulating. Sometimes there was an attraction. Sometimes they amused him. Sometimes he just liked them. He had many women as friends: Marlene Dietrich, Slim Hawkes, Ava Gardner, Lauren Bacall. He was infatuated with many: Adriana Ivancich is of great […]
Movie to be made of “Across the River and Into the Woods”
Plierce Brosnan will bring a little-known Ernest Hemingway novel to the screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Across the River and Into the Woods was one of Hemingway’s poorly received books. It was written while Hemingway was infatuated with Adriana Ivancich who was the prototype for Renata. It still sold decently and at one point, there was […]
Lillian Ross’ Profile of Hemingway
How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? The above is a link to the Lillian Ross interview with Hemingway, a sad betrayal of his kindness and friendship to a young writer. There’s a famous profile of Hemingway that was published on May 13, 1950 in The New Yorker done by a very young journalist at […]
Photos only with commentary: Part 2. The Pauline years
Ernest Loves Agnes: and the early romance continues
The newly announced name is a tribute to the romance — real and imagined — of young Ernest Hemingway and nurse Agnes von Kurowsky that grew during the author’s stay as a soldier in an American Red Cross hospital in Milan during World War I. “It’s about falling in love with Italy as much as anything,” Lajuenesse said. […]
Mary Welsh Hemingway, Hemingway’s Widow
Minn. native Mary Hemingway, wife of Ernest, memorialized in Bemidji Mary was Hemingway’s fourth wife and his widow. She took a fair amount of abuse. I was never certain if she truly loved him that much or if she loved being Mrs. Ernest Hemingway that much. She survived his infatuation with Adriana Ivancich, his bad […]
HEMINGWAY AS LETTER WRITER
Hemingway was a prolific letter writer. Some say that he left behind 8,000 to 10,000 letters. Some have been published despite his request that they not be published. I have to say though that reading his letters is really fun and interesting and gives me insight into his humor, what’s important to him, and the […]