34 Facts About Gregory Hemingway

Gregory Hemingway's bestselling 1976 memoir of her father, Papa: A Personal Memoir, was seen by some to reflect troubles of her own.

Gregory 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.

In September 1951, Gregory Hemingway was arrested for entering the women's bathroom in a Los Angeles movie theater dressed in women's clothing.

Gloria Gregory Hemingway retreated to Africa, where she drank alcohol and shot elephants.

Gregory Hemingway spent the next three years in Africa as an apprentice professional hunter but failed to obtain a license because of her drinking.

Gregory Hemingway joined the United States Army as a private in October 1956 and served for a brief period.

Gregory Hemingway suffered from mental illness, was institutionalized for a time, and received several dozen treatments with electroconvulsive therapy.

Gregory Hemingway wrote her father a bitter letter, detailing the medical facts of her mother's death and blaming Ernest for the tragedy.

The next year, Ernest Gregory Hemingway killed himself, and again Gloria wrestled with guilt over the death of a parent.

Gregory Hemingway obtained a medical degree from the University of Miami Medical School in 1964.

Valerie included this text as the epigraph to her own tribute to Gloria Gregory Hemingway written two years after her death:.

Gregory Hemingway was a Copy of Thomas Hudson, physically, reduced in scale and widened and shortened.

Gregory Hemingway's skin freckled when it tanned and he had a humorous face and was born being very old.

Gregory 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.

Gregory 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.

Gregory 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.

Gregory Hemingway was just being good while his badness grew inside him.

One of her marriages, to Valerie Danby-Smith, Ernest Gregory Hemingway's secretary, lasted almost 20 years.

Gregory 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.

Gregory Hemingway battled bipolar disorder, alcoholism, and drug abuse for many years.

When Gregory Hemingway was 12 years old, Ernest walked in on her dressed in Martha Gellhorn's stockings, a near-daily activity at the time, and went berserk.

Gregory Hemingway, presenting as a man, remarried Galliher in 1997 in Washington state, for at the time same-sex marriage in Washington was illegal.

Gregory 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.

Gregory 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.

Gregory 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.

On September 24,2001, Gregory 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.

Gregory Hemingway died on October 1,2001, of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in Miami-Dade Women's Detention Center.

That day, Gregory Hemingway was due in court to answer charges of indecent exposure and resisting arrest without violence.

Gregory Hemingway had been living in Florida for more than ten years.

The media response to Gregory Hemingway's death has been condemned for not referring to Gregory Hemingway as "Gloria" and for portraying gender variance as inherently pathological.

Shortly after Gregory Hemingway died, The Advocate published an article discussing the coverage of her death.

Gregory Hemingway is buried next to her father and half-brother Jack in the cemetery at Ketchum, Idaho.

The children challenged the will that named Galliher as heir, claiming that Galliher was not legally Gregory Hemingway's widow given that Gregory Hemingway's home state of Florida did not recognize same-sex marriages.

Daughter Lorian Gregory Hemingway wrote about Gloria in the 1999 book Walk on Water: A Memoir.