Ernest Hemingway
Julie Hargrove
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
-Ernest Hemingway
He was a failed KGB Spy.
Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, skin cancer, hepatitis, diabetes, two plane crashes (on consecutive days), a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, and more.
Ernest Hemingway killed himself with his favorite shotgun bought from Abercrombie & Fitch.
In the Florida Keys, there are a lot of 6-toed cats, because Ernest Hemingway’s cat “got around” a lot.
As a young boy, Ernest Hemingway was dressed in girls’ clothing by his mother and referred to as ‘Ernestine’.
He once hit a critic who’d given one of his books a bad review.
Hemingway’s memoir A Moveable Feast, about his life in Paris in the 1920s, was not published until 1964.
There’s an Ernest Hemingway lookalike society that holds yearly contests.