Gloria Hemingway maintained a long-running feud with her father, stemming from a 1951 incident when her arrest for entering a bar "in drag" caused an argument between Ernest and Gloria Hemingway's mother Pauline.
34 Facts About Gloria Hemingway
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Gloria Hemingway's bestselling 1976 memoir of her father, Papa: A Personal Memoir, was seen by some to reflect troubles of her own.
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Gloria Hemingway dropped out of St John's College, Annapolis, after one year and worked for a time as an aircraft mechanic before moving to California in 1951.
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In September 1951, Gloria Hemingway was arrested for entering the women's bathroom in a Los Angeles movie theater dressed in women's clothing.
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Gloria Hemingway retreated to Africa, where she drank alcohol and shot elephants.
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Gloria Hemingway spent the next three years in Africa as an apprentice professional hunter but failed to obtain a license because of her drinking.
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Gloria Hemingway joined the United States Army as a private in October 1956 and served for a brief period.
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Gloria Hemingway suffered from mental illness, was institutionalized for a time, and received several dozen treatments with electroconvulsive therapy.
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Gloria Hemingway wrote her father a bitter letter, detailing the medical facts of her mother's death and blaming Ernest for the tragedy.
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The next year, Ernest Hemingway killed himself, and again Gloria wrestled with guilt over the death of a parent.
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Gloria Hemingway obtained a medical degree from the University of Miami Medical School in 1964.
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Gloria Hemingway wrote a short account of her father's life and their strained relationship, Papa: A Personal Memoir, that became a bestseller.
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Valerie included this text as the epigraph to her own tribute to Gloria Hemingway written two years after her death:.
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Gloria Hemingway was a Copy of Thomas Hudson, physically, reduced in scale and widened and shortened.
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Gloria Hemingway's skin freckled when it tanned and he had a humorous face and was born being very old.
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Gloria Hemingway was a devil too, and deviled both his older brothers, and he had a dark side to him that nobody except Thomas Hudson could ever understand.
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Gloria Hemingway was a little unbelievable and anyone could well have doubted his feats except that many people had seen him ride and watched him jump and seen his cold, professional modesty.
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Gloria Hemingway was a boy born to be quite wicked who was being very good and he carried his wickedness around with him transmuted into a sort of teasing gaiety.
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Gloria Hemingway was just being good while his badness grew inside him.
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One of her marriages, to Valerie Danby-Smith, Ernest Gloria Hemingway's secretary, lasted almost 20 years.
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Gloria Hemingway practiced medicine in the 1970s and 1980s, first in New York and then as a rural family doctor in Montana, first in Fort Benton and later as the medical officer for Garfield County, based in Jordan, Montana.
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Gloria Hemingway battled bipolar disorder, alcoholism, and drug abuse for many years.
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When Gloria Hemingway was 12 years old, Ernest walked in on her dressed in her stepmother Martha Gellhorn's stockings, a near-daily activity at the time, and went berserk.
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Gloria Hemingway, presenting as a man, remarried Galliher in 1997 in Washington state, for at the time same-sex marriage in Washington was illegal.
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Gloria Hemingway spoke at the dedication of the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum in her mother's family home in Piggott, Arkansas, when it opened on July 4,1999.
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Gloria Hemingway had breast implant surgery on one breast and then had it reversed, but the autopsy and police report both noted the presence of breasts.
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Gloria Hemingway was sometimes seen in women's attire; yet, dressed as a man, she frequented a local tavern and presented as what a patron called "just one of the guys", though they knew about her feminine persona and clothing and weren't bothered.
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On September 24,2001, Gloria Hemingway wore a black cocktail dress to a party and used the name Vanessa; she did not become drunk and was regarded as happy by friends, many who had never been introduced to her as a woman before.
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Gloria Hemingway died on October 1,2001, of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in Miami-Dade Women's Detention Center.
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That day, Gloria Hemingway was due in court to answer charges of indecent exposure and resisting arrest without violence.
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Gloria Hemingway had been living in Florida for more than ten years.
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Shortly after Gloria Hemingway died, The Advocate published an article discussing the coverage of her death.
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Gloria Hemingway is buried next to her father and half-brother Jack in the cemetery at Ketchum, Idaho.
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The children challenged the will that named Galliher as heir, claiming that Galliher was not legally Gloria Hemingway's widow given that Gloria Hemingway's home state of Florida did not recognize same-sex marriages.