15 Facts About Jack Hemingway

John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway was a Canadian-American fly fisherman, conservationist, and writer.

Jack Hemingway was the son of American novelist and Nobel Prize-laureate Ernest Hemingway.

Jack Hemingway was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the only child of American writer Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley Richardson.

Jack Hemingway later gained two half-siblings, Patrick and Gloria, from Hemingway's marriage to Pauline Pfeiffer.

Jack Hemingway was named for his mother, and for the Spanish matador Nicanor Villalta y Serres, whom his father admired.

Jack Hemingway attended the University of Montana and Dartmouth College, but never graduated, instead enlisting in the US Army after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

In France in late October 1944, Jack Hemingway was wounded and captured by the Germans behind enemy lines in the Vosges, and was held as a POW at Moosburg Prison Camp until April 1945.

Jack Hemingway married Byra Louise "Puck" Whittlesey on June 25,1949, in Paris.

In 1989, Jack Hemingway married Angela Holvey; they remained married until his death in 2000.

Jack Hemingway later died of a barbiturate overdose in 1996 at age 42; her death was ruled self-inflicted, thereby becoming "the fifth person in four generations of her family to commit suicide".

Jack Hemingway assisted his father's fourth wife and widow, Mary Welsh Hemingway, with final editing before publication of A Moveable Feast, his father's memoir of life in 1920s Paris, which was published three years after Ernest Hemingway's death.

Jack Hemingway published an autobiography, Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With and Without Papa, in 1986.

Jack Hemingway died on December 1,2000, at age 77 from complications following heart surgery in New York City.

Jack Hemingway had previously suffered a heart attack at around age 44.

Jack Hemingway is buried in Idaho at the Ketchum Cemetery, next to his wife Puck, daughter Margaux, father Ernest, step-mother Mary and half-brother Gregory.