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In the section regarding his suicide, it says that 'it was anathema for a man of Hemingway's generation to accept he suffered from mental illness'. I looked up this word and it doesn't seem to make any sense, even if someone knows the definition. Also, I don't know how to make a topic underneath the above suicide section, so I did this instead. I also couldn't figure out how to edit. Thank you. Gamelizard (talk) 22:19, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm wavering on whether the sentence should be included at all, but I suppose an adequate substitute would be 'difficult', 'rare', 'uncommon', as they all serve the broad purpose. Perhaps uncommon would be best suited. Gamelizard (talk) 04:38, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think anathema is more reflective than uncommon - it was not just that it was rare, but it was something people were emotionally opposed to. Nikkimaria (talk) 23:39, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
1962 - The Wild Years
1964 - A Moveable Feast
1967 - By-Lines
1970 - Islands in the Stream
1972 - The Nick Adams Stories
1979 - 88 Poems
1981 - Selected Letters Mocca-fixer (talk) 19:30, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As many of Deacon Edmund Rice descendants have become famous and well-known, Ernest Hemingway is also one of them. The following shows the direct lineage from Ernest Hemingway to Deacon Edmund Rice.
- Ernest Hemingway
- His father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway
- His father, Anson Tyler Hemingway
- His mother, Harriet Louisa Tyler
- Her mother, Harriet Linsley
- Her mother, Betsey Russel
- Her father, Samuel Russel
- His mother, Sarah Trowbridge
- Her father, Thomas Trowbridge (the first)
- His father, Thomas Trowbridge (the second)
- His brother, James Trowbridge
- His son, Thomas Trowbridge (the third)
- His son, John Trowbridge
- His daughter, Ruth Rice (maiden name Trowbridge)
- Her spouse, Peter Rice
- His father, Hezekiah Rice
- His father, Jonathan Rice
- His father, Henry Rice
- His father, Deacon Edmund Rice Chumpy04 (talk) 01:41, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
He actually was followed by the FBI from 1942-1974; he wasn't just 'paranoid'. This is public knowledge now, and adds a lot to the narrative of his later life and potential causes of his suicide. ~2025-37708-73 (talk) 14:25, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Since editing this entry does not seem permitted, will be curious to see if the
facts from the following NYTimes story today about the very personal autographed copy of The Old Man and the Sea that Hemingway left for one of the nuns who cared for him at the Mayo Clinic just days before he killed himself will be added, perhaps to the "Legacy" section:
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