A Death in the Family
Now married, Hemingway and Pauline traveled to Kansas City, where their son Patrick was born on June 28, 1928. Hemingway fictionalized Pauline’s difficult delivery and Patrick’s difficult birth in A Farewell to Arms. Third son Gregory (who later became Gloria Hemingway) was born in 1931, but before that, tragedy struck…
In the winter of 1928, Hemingway received a cable telling him that his father had killed himself. He was devastated. Legend says Ernest had written to his father telling him not to worry about financial difficulties, and the letter allegedly arrived minutes after the suicide. Prophetically, Ernest remarked, “I’ll probably go the same way.”
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