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Hemingway heir to offer revelations
http://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/120170850576110.xml&coll=1Thursday, January 31, 2008
The grandson of a literary legend talks about his famous family at a lecture next week. BOOK: "Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir" (The Lyons Press; $24.95; 224 pages) AUTHOR: John Hemingway, grandson of literary giant Ernest Hemingway LECTURE: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, "Papa's Grandson: Times and Turbulence in a Famous Literary Family." Sponsored by John F. Chubb Lecture on Business, Public Policy and World Affairs. Book signing follows. VENUE: Elizabethtown College's Leffler Chapel and Performance Center INFO: Free, but tickets required: 361-1410. OF NOTE: John Hemingway is the son of Gregory Hemingway, Ernest's son. "Strange Tribe" reveals the dynamics between Ernest and Gregory, who tried to live up to his father's macho reputation. Gregory was a cross-dresser and ultimately transsexual. John believes that Ernest and Gregory, who both suffered from bipolar disorder and were fascinated with androgyny, had a special kinship as two sides of the same coin.
