Hemingway's childhood: people, places, and experiences, and the works they inspired.
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Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (later: Mowrer) (1891-1979) was Ernest Hemingway's first wife and the mother of their son, John (Bumby; later: Jack).
From Oak Park to Idaho, the places Hemingway called or thought of as home.
Ernest Hemingway was the second of six children born to Dr. Clarence (Ed) and Grace Hall Hemingway: Marcelline, Ernest, Ursula, Madelaine, Carol, and Leicester.
Ernest Hemingway’s twenty-two year relationship with Idaho began in 1939, deepened over many long autumn stays in the Wood River Valley, and culminated with him making his final home in Ketchum in 1959. He died by suicide there in 1961 and is buried alongside family and close friends in the Ketchum cemetery. Idaho subtly influenced several of Hemingway's later works, most notably For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Hemingway's time in Kansas City, Missouri, and the works written there, set there, or inspired by his Kansas City experiences.
Ernest Hemingway met his third wife, writer and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), in 1936. They married in 1940 and divorced in 1945.
War correspondent Mary Welsh (1908-1986) married Ernest Hemingway in 1946. As his widow, she was the initial custodian of his literary legacy.
Fashion journalist Pauline Marie Pfeiffer (1895-1951) was Hemingway's second wife. Ernest and Pauline had two children, Patrick and Gregory (later: Gloria).
Piggott, Arkansas, was hometown to Hemingway's second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer. The Pfeiffer family had a tremendous impact on Hemingway's life and writing.