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| Born | Patrick Miller Hemingway (1928-06-28)June 28, 1928 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | September 2, 2025(2025-09-02) (aged 97) Bozeman, Montana, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) |
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Patrick Miller Hemingway (June 28, 1928 – September 2, 2025) was an American wildlife manager and writer who was novelistErnest Hemingway's second son and the first born to Hemingway's second wifePauline Pfeiffer.[1] During his childhood he travelled frequently with his parents and then attendedHarvard University, graduated in 1950, and, shortly thereafter, moved to and lived in East Africa for twenty-five years. In Tanzania, Patrick was a professionalbig-game hunter and owned asafari business for more than a decade.[2] In the 1960s, the United Nations appointed Hemingway to theWildlife Management College in Tanzania as a teacher of conservation and wildlife. In the 1970s, he moved toMontana, where he managed the intellectual property of his father's estate. For example, he edited his father's unpublished novel about a 1950s safari to Africa and published it with the titleTrue at First Light (1999).
Born inKansas City, Missouri, on June 28, 1928,[3][1] Hemingway traveled with his parents to Europe in 1929 and again in 1933, toWyoming andIdaho during his summers, though his permanent residence was inKey West.[4][5][6] In 1940, his parents divorced, after which his father marriedMartha Gellhorn. After their marriage, they moved to Cuba where Patrick visited often.[7] At the beginning of World War II, Hemingway helped crew his father's boat, thePilar, on improvised missions to hunt for GermanU-boats operating in theGulf of Mexico.[7][8] Patrick attendedStanford University for two years, transferred toHarvard and graduated in 1950 with aBA in History and Literature.[4][9]
Hemingway,Ken Burns's six-hour documentary on Hemingway's life and writing, contains photographs and film footage of Hemingway, including interviews with him about his life with his father.[10]
Hemingway was married to Henrietta Broyles, with whom he had a daughter, Mina Hemingway (born 1960).[11] He remarried after Broyles's death, to Carol Thompson.[12] He died on September 2, 2025, inBozeman, Montana, at the age of 97.[3]
Having studied agriculture at his mother's plantation inPiggott, Arkansas, Hemingway used his inheritance after her death to buy a 2,300-acre (9.3 km2) farm nearDar-es-Salaam.[13] He and his wife moved to Africa, where he lived for 25 years.[6] Hemingway lived for much of his life inTanganyika where he ran asafari expedition company, served as awhite hunter to wealthy patrons, and as an honorary game warden in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.[2] He started his safari business, called Tanganyika Safari Business, nearMount Kilimanjaro in 1955, which he gave up in the early 1960s when his wife was ill.[13] For 12 years he taught conservation of wildlife at theCollege of African Wildlife Management in Tanzania, as part of his job as forestry officer in theFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The College of African Wildlife Management atMweka trains armed officers to enforce wildlife protection laws inSub-Saharan Africa.[4]
Hemingway's father Ernest died in 1961,[14] and his wife Henrietta died in 1963.[1] When he left Africa he moved toBozeman, Montana, where he lived from 1975 until his death.[1][6] He oversaw the management of Ernest Hemingway's intellectual property, which includes projects in publishing, electronic media, and movies in the United States and worldwide.[4]
Hemingway edited his father's "Africa book" that was published in 1999 with the titleTrue at First Light. The book is a blend of fact and fiction from the East Africa expedition Ernest and fourth wifeMary went on from late 1953 to early 1954, in part to visit Patrick and his wife.[15][16] Toward the end of the trip Ernest Hemingway was in two successive plane crashes and was reported dead.[17] He sustained a severehead injury which went largely undiagnosed until he left Africa.[18] Upon his return to Cuba he worked sporadically onTrue at First Light, but eventually set it aside.[15]
The manuscript was in theJohn F. Kennedy Library Hemingway Archives, and Patrick edited the 800 pages down to half the size of the original.[15] He 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 toTrue at First Light.[15][19]
Hemingway contributed the introductions to the 1990 edition of Ernest Hemingway'sGreen Hills of Africa[20] and the 1991 edition ofValley of Life: Africa's Great Rift;[21] the forewords to the 2003 posthumous collections Hemingway on Hunting[22] andHemingway on War;[23] and a foreword to the 2009 restored edition of his father'sA Moveable Feast.[24] For the 2012 special edition ofA Farewell to Arms, containing all 47 alternative endings, Patrick wrote a personal foreword.[25] In 2022, he publishedDear Papa, a collection of correspondence between him and his father.[26]
