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Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 ? July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.

A polydactyl cat is a cat with a congenital physical anomaly, with more than usual number of toes on one or more of its paws as a result of a cat body type genetic mutation. In animals including humans, polydactyly (or polydactylism, also known as hyperdactyly) is the anatomical abnormality of having more than the usual number of digits on the hands or feet.

The Ernest Hemingway House, officially known as the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, was the residence of author Ernest Hemingway in Key West, Florida, United States. It is located at 907 Whitehead Street, near a prominent lighthouse close to the Southern coast of the island. On November 24, 1968, it was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark.

Toby Hemingway (born 28 May 1983) is a British actor. He is probably best known for his role as bad boy Reid Garwin in the 2006 movie The Covenant.

Hemingway was born in Brighton, England to English-Italian author, Annamaria Hemingway and moved to Ojai, California when he was thirteen with his mother. He earned an associates degree in Fine Arts at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City after graduating high school in 2001 from Laurel Springs School, which provides homeschooling and online education. He lives in Los Angeles. His most recent appearance was in Feast of Love, which was released in September 2007. Currently his role to star in York Shackleton's Street (film) is in final negotiations.

He is left-handed, which made it somewhat of a challenge to make coffee for the film Feast of Love.

His next role will be in S.M.A.S.H., as American Martin "Blaze" Henderson.

Author April Bostic said Toby was the inspiration for her novel A Rose to the Fallen after she saw him in The Covenant.

He speaks with a British accent but switches to an American accent when shooting a movie.

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (November 9, 1891 ? January 22, 1979 Lakeland, Fla.) was the first wife of writer Ernest Hemingway.

She was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and married Ernest Hemingway on September 3, 1921. Together they moved to Paris, France, and in the fall of 1923, as Hadley approached the term of her pregnancy, they returned westward so that their child could be born in North America. On October 10, 1923, Hadley gave birth to John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway in Toronto, Canada. John was nicknamed "Bumby" and "Jack", and later fathered three daughters, including actresses Margaux Hemingway and Mariel Hemingway.

In January 1924 the Hemingway family returned to Paris. Hadley and Hemingway had many adventures together as members of "The Lost Generation," as Gertrude Stein called the expatriates living in Paris. Hemingway recounted these days in his non-fiction book A Moveable Feast. It covered the years 1921-1926 and it recounts the days of the "struggling artist", Hemingway and wife Hadley, and their adventures in the sidewalk cafe society of Paris; and their trips to Switzerland, Austria, and Spain.

In the spring of 1925, the Hemingways met Pauline Pfeiffer, an American expatriate in Paris. After Hadley discovered that her husband and Pfeiffer were having an affair, Hadley filed for divorce from her husband, which was finalized in January 1927.

Among many of Hadley's friends in Paris was Paul Mowrer. A distinguished American poet, journalist and political writer, and the first-ever recipient of a Pulitzer Prize awarded for foreign correspondence, Hadley had known him since the spring of 1927. On July 3, 1933, Hadley and Paul Mowrer were married in London, where Mowrer was at the time covering the World Economic Conference. Later that year the Mowrers permanently returned to the United States. Hadley Mowrer remained on friendly terms with her first husband until his death.

Martha Gellhorn (8 November 1908 - 15 February 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer and journalist, considered to be one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945. At the age of 89, ill and nearly completely blind, she committed suicide.Moorehead, 2003, New York edition, p.424 The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism is named after her.

Category: File - :Ernest and Mary Hemingway in Kenya.jpg|thumb|Ernest and Mary Hemingway feed a baby gazelle in Kenya in 1953

Mary Welsh Hemingway (April 5, 1908 - November 26, 1986) was an American journalist and the fourth wife (and widow) of Ernest Hemingway.

Born in Minnesota, Welsh was a daughter of a lumberman. When she was 32, she married Lawrence Miller Cook, a drama student from Ohio. Their life together was short and they soon separated. After the separation, Mary moved to Chicago and landed a job at the Chicago Daily News where she met Will Lang Jr., with whom she formed a fast friendship, and the pair worked together on several assignments. A career move presented itself during a vacation trip to London, when Mary landed a new job at the London Daily Express. The position soon saw her assigned to work in Paris ahead of what was to become World War II.

After the fall of France, Welsh returned to London to cover the events of the War and attended and reported on the press conferences of Winston Churchill. Mary made an accusation of plagiarism against a fellow journalist, Andy Rooney, although the accusations were proven false. It was also during the war years that she married Australian journalist Noel Monks. In 1944 she met Ernest Hemingway in London and they became intimate.

In 1945, Mary Welsh divorced Noel Monks, and in March 1946, she married Ernest Hemingway, the ceremony taking place in Cuba. In August 1946, she had a miscarriage due to an ectopic pregnancy. Mary lived with Ernest in Cuba, Key West, Florida and finally, Ketchum, Idaho.

In 1976, she wrote her autobiography, How It Was. Further biographical details of Mary Welsh Hemingway can be found in the numerous Hemingway biographies and also in The Hemingway Women by Bernice Kert, published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York 1983, (555 pages), ISBN 0-393-31835-4.

John "Jack" Hadley Nicanor Hemingway (October 10, 1923 ? December 1, 2000) was an American writer.

Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an American actress, businessperson and writer.

Margaux Louise Hemingway (February 16, 1955 - July 1, 1996) was an American fashion model and actress.

Gloria Hemingway (12 November 1931 - 1 October 2001), born Gregory Hancock Hemingway, was the third and youngest child of famed author Ernest Hemingway, the second by his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1931. Hemingway died in 2001 of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in Miami-Dade Women's Detention Center. For years Hemingway had experienced gender dysphoria and eventually had sex reassignment surgery.McDonald, Craig. November 2004. "The Valerie Hemingway Interview Part 1: Running With The Bulls. Accessed 27 May 2007.Yardley, Jonathan. Washington Post. 11 November 2004. "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41351-2004Nov10.html A Writer's Companion]". Accessed 27 May 2007. She was due to appear in court on the day she died, facing charges of indecent exposure and resisting arrest without violence."The Strange Saga of Gregory Hemingway". Accessed 27 May 2007.

Hemingway was a doctor, but the authorities in Montana chose not to renew her medical license in 1988 because of her ongoing alcoholism. She had also battled bipolar disorder and drug abuse for many years.BBC News. 3 October 2003. "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3160646.stm Hemingway legacy feud 'resolved']". Accessed 27 May 2007.

Hemingway was married four times. Her last marriage, to Ida, ended in divorce in 1995 after three years. She underwent a sex change procedure that same year and, in a 1997 ceremony in Washington, they remarried. Upon her death the legitimacy of the marriage was called into question. Her $7,000,000 (£4.2m) estate was left to widow Ida, but her children challenged the inheritance, claiming that Ida could not be a widow as the marriage was not legal (Hemingway's home state of Florida does not recognize same-sex marriages). The parties eventually reached an undisclosed settlement.

Before the sex reassignment surgery, Hemingway fathered eight children: Patrick, Edward, Sean, Brendan, Vanessa, Maria, John, and Lorian.

Hemingway wrote an account of her father's life and the strained relationship they had. Entitled Papa: A Personal Memoir it was published in 1976 with a preface by Norman Mailer and detailed the cause of the bad feelings and years of estrangement. Daughter Lorian Hemingway went on to write about her father in the 1999 book Walk on Water: A Memoir. Gloria's son John Hemingway is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir. In 2005 Valerie Hemingway, who marrying--and later divorcing--Gregory, Ernest's youngest son and was also Ernest Hemingway's secretary, published her memoir Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways. Son Edward, an artist, published his first illustrated children's book "Bump in the Night" in 2008.