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July 2, 1961
Ernest Hemingway   (1899 - 1961)
 
The Hemingways and Suicide
 
by Steve King

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On this day in 1961 Ernest Hemingway committed suicide at the age of sixty-one. There have been five suicides in the Hemingway family over four generations -- Hemingway's father, Clarence; siblings Ursula, Leicester and Ernest; granddaughter Margaux. The generation skipped was just barely: Hemingway's youngest son, Gregory, died in 2001 as a transsexual named Gloria, of causes that put a lot of strain on the term "natural." ...   FULL STORY »Luminary Graphics, Inc.
 
 
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