Gregory Hemingway?qsrc=3044
| Gloria Hemingway | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gregory Hancock Hemingway November 12, 1931 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | October 1, 2001 (aged 69) Key Biscayne, Florida, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
Gloria Hemingway (November 12, 1931 – October 1, 2001) was the third and youngest child of author Ernest Hemingway, the second by his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer.
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Biography
She was born Gregory Hancock Hemingway in Kansas City, Missouri. For years Hemingway had experienced gender dysphoria and eventually had gender reassignment surgery.[1][2] Hemingway was a doctor, but the authorities in Montana chose not to renew her medical license in 1988 because of her ongoing alcoholism.[3] She had also battled bipolar disorder and drug abuse for many years.[4]
Before the gender reassignment surgery, Hemingway fathered eight children: Patrick, Edward, Sean, Brendan, Vanessa, Maria, John, and Lorian.[1] Hemingway was married four times whilst living as a man. Her last marriage, to Ida, ended in divorce in 1995 after three years. She underwent genital gender reassignment surgery that same year and, in a 1997 ceremony in Washington state, they remarried. Upon her death the legitimacy of the marriage was called into question because she wrote two wills. One will left the $7,000,000 (£4.2m) estate to widow Ida, the other to the children.[5]Her children challenged the inheritance, claiming that Ida could not be a widow as the marriage was not legal (Hemingway's home state of Florida does not recognize same-sex marriages). The parties eventually reached an undisclosed settlement.[4]
Hemingway wrote an account of her father's life and the strained relationship they had.[1] Entitled Papa: A Personal Memoir it was published in 1976 with a preface by Norman Mailer and detailed the cause of the bad feelings and years of estrangement. Gloria's daughter Lorian Hemingway went on to write about her father in the 1999 book Walk on Water: A Memoir.[3]
As Gregory she was married to Valerie Danby-Smith. Valarie was Ernest Hemingway's secretary. In 2008 she published her memoir Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways.
Son Edward, an artist, published his first illustrated children's book Bump in the Night in 2008.
Son John Hemingway is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir.
Death
Hemingway died in 2001 of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in Miami-Dade Women's Detention Center. She was due to appear in court on the day she died, facing charges of indecent exposure and resisting arrest without violence.[3]
References
- ^ a b c McDonald, Craig. November 2004. "[1]. Accessed 27 May 2007.
- ^ Yardley, Jonathan. Washington Post. 11 November 2004. "A Writer's Companion". Accessed 27 May 2007.
- ^ a b c "The Strange Saga of Gregory Hemingway". Accessed 27 May 2007.
- ^ a b BBC News. 3 October 2003. "Hemingway legacy feud 'resolved'". Accessed 27 May 2007.
- ^ Gumbel, Andrew. Transsexual Son Haunts Hemingway Clan The Independent. 28 September 2003. Retrieved 2010–02–23
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