Surviving as a Hemingway

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Surviving as a Hemingway
To write memoir about his dad, grandson had to first understand Ernest

By ANGELA ROMANO
Contributing Reporter

http://www.wednesdayjournalonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=16818

Having a world-renowned last name hasn't been easy for John Hemingway.

The much-written-about troubles of his Nobel- and Pulitzer-winning grandfather echoed in the life of Gregory/Gloria Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's youngest child and John's father. It's his dad's woes - the lesser-known Hemingway tragedy of all-out gender confusion complicated by family legacies of alcoholism, drug abuse, mental illness and failed marriages - that for decades concerned John Hemingway.