Mary Welsh Hemingway was an American journalist
who was the fourth wife and widow of Ernest
Hemingway.
Born in Walker, Minnesota, Welsh was a daughter
of a lumberman. In 1938, 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 began working at the Chicago Daily News,
where she met Will Lang Jr.. The two formed
a fast friendship and worked together on several
assignments. A career move presented itself
during a vacation trip to London, when Mary
started a new job at the London Daily Express.
The position soon brought her assignments
in Paris during the years preceding World
War II.
After the fall of France in 1940, Welsh returned
to London to cover the events of the War.
She also attended and reported on the press
conferences of Winston Churchill. Mary made
an accusation of plagiarism against several
fellow journalists, including 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
and, after 1959, in Ketchum, Idaho. After
Ernest's suicide in 1961, Mary acted as his
literary executor, and was responsible for
the publication of A Moveable Feast and other
posthumous works.
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
References
^ by Kenneth Koyen, "Snapshots of Mary Welsh
Hemingway," 2003, http:www.evesmag.com/hemingway.htm
^ by Bernice Kert, published by W. W. Norton
& Company, New York 1983,, ISBN 0-393-31835-4.
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