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Ernest Hemingway In His Time
Death of a Legendary Writer
Ernest Hemingway's life of adventure was filled with more than one near-death episode. When his end did come,
it was by his own hand, sudden and violent as the events in many of his own novels.
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"Hemingway Feared Dead in Nile Air Crash,"
Daily News, January 25, 1954.
When Hemingway and his fourth wife, Mary Welsh, were involved in a plane crash in Uganda in 1954, search planes
mistakenly reported that there were no survivors, and Hemingway's death was prematurely announced
by press around the world. |
"Gunshot Kills Hemingway,"
Chicago Daily Tribune, 120 (July 3, 1961).
Hemingway's suicide was initially reported as an accident. |
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The Atlantic Monthly, 223 (January 1969).
Eight years after Hemingway's death, this issue contained "Hemingway: Living-Loving-Dying," the first part
of a new book by Hemingway biographer Carlos Baker. |
The Daily Telegraph Magazine (London), May 19, 1972.
Cover from a photograph by Karsh. "Miss Mary's Lion" was one of Hemingway's posthumously-published stories.
The Humanist, 76 (September 1961).
Cover with Karsh's famous 1958 photograph of Hemingway. |
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