Mary T (Payea) Hemingway 91, died Saturday September 9th 2023 with her family by her side. Mary was born December 4th 1931 to Lorretta and Frank Payea, the 8th of 16 children.

In a letter to Bernard Peyton written in 1947, Hemingway gave a “batch” Bloody Mary recipe for a large pitcher (anything smaller is “worthless,” he said): “1 chunk of ice (the biggest ...

Mary Hemingway took a boatload of materials back to the U.S., burned some records deemed sensitive and left thousands of other volumes and documents at the home near Havana.

With nowhere to store her husband’s vast assortment of papers, manuscripts and belongings after his death, Mary Hemingway wrote to Jacqueline Kennedy offering the collection as part of the ...

One morning, Mary Hemingway, Papa’s fourth wife, found her husband with a shotgun in one hand, two shells in the other. He had just finished writing a note in which he made ominous references to ...

Eventually, he owned a home in Ketchum — what is now the Ernest and Mary Hemingway House and Preserve — for several years before his death in 1961. It’s no surprise that he, like so many ...

Hemingway, who completed the bulk of his most important works well before he and Mary moved to the house in 1959, only lived in it about six months, though he probably did final revisions there on ...

WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) More than 40 years since Ernest Hemingway took his own life, A.E. Hotchner has forgotten nothing about his old friend and father figure: his books and ...

After Hemingway's death in 1961, his widow, Mary Welsh Hemingway, was called to retrieve the stuff that had been stored since 1939 at Sloppy Joe's, one of Hemingway's favorite hangouts in the 1930s.

With Mary Hemingway, his fourth wife, he called her his 'kitten brother,' and he often referred to himself as 'Catherine,' as the female part of the relationship.