13 Facts About Patrick Hemingway

Patrick Miller Hemingway was born on June 28,1928 and is an American wildlife manager and writer who is novelist Ernest Hemingway's second son, and the first born to Hemingway's second wife Pauline Pfeiffer.

In Tanzania, Patrick was a professional big-game hunter and for over a decade he owned a safari business.

Patrick Hemingway edited his father's unpublished novel about a 1950s safari to Africa and published it with the title True at First Light.

At the beginning of World War II, Patrick Hemingway helped crew his father's boat, the Pilar, on improvised missions to hunt for German U-boats operating in the Gulf of Mexico.

Patrick Hemingway attended Stanford University for two years, transferred to Harvard and graduated in 1950 with a BA in History and Literature.

Patrick Hemingway lived for much of his life in Tanganyika where he ran a safari expedition company; served as a white hunter to wealthy patrons; and as an honorary game warden in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

Patrick Hemingway started his safari business, called Tanganyika Safari Business, near Mount Kilimanjaro in 1955, which he gave up in the early 1960s when his wife was ill.

Patrick Hemingway oversees the management of Ernest Hemingway's intellectual property, which includes projects in publishing, electronic media, and movies in the United States and worldwide.

Patrick Hemingway edited his father's "Africa book" that was published in 1999 with the title True at First Light.

Toward the end of the trip Ernest Patrick Hemingway was in two successive plane crashes and was reported dead.

Patrick Hemingway sustained a severe head injury which went largely undiagnosed until he left Africa.

The manuscript was in the John F Kennedy Library Hemingway Archives, and Patrick edited the 800 pages down to half the size.

Patrick Hemingway had been present with his father during much of the expedition and was familiar with the events of Africa during that year, which he describes in the "Foreword" to True at First Light.