John Hemingway

Infobox Writer
name = John Patrick Hemingway


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birthname = John Patrick Hemingway
birthdate = Born 1960

John Patrick Hemingway 1960, is an American author, whose critically acclaimed memoir "Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir" examines the similarities and the complex relationship between his father Dr. Gregory Hemingway and his grandfather, the Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway; in particular it addresses the issue of his father’s cross-dressing and sex reassignment and its connection to Ernest Hemingway.

Hemingway moved to Milan, Italy in 1983, where he pursued a writing and translating career. His articles have appeared in several Italian newspapers such as l’Unita’ and Libero.

Hemingway is currently working on a libretto for an opera based on his childhood and the father/son relationship.

Personal life

As revealed in his memoir, Strange Tribe, Hemingway had a difficult childhood, his father suffered from bipolar disorder and his mother, Alice Thomas is schizophrenic. Hemingway spent his early years being shuffled from one home to another, and dealing with his dysfunctional family. He eventually went to study history and Italian at U.C.L.A. and after graduating moved to Italy, as a way of distancing himself from his troubled family background. One of the unresolved questions for him was how his father, as a cross-dresser and transsexual could fit with the image that the public has of his grandfather as an icon of male masculinity. The macho myth surrounding his grandfather was in fact only half the storyFact|date=July 2008.

After leaving Italy and spending a year in Spain Hemingway now lives with his wife and two children in Montreal, Canada.

External links

* [http://www.wmfe.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7849 Orlando Public Radio interview of John Hemingway]
* [http://wamu.org/programs/dr/07/06/04.php The Diane Rehm Show radio interview]
* [http://johnhemingway.blogspot.com John Hemingway Blog]

References and footnotes

*Strange Tribe 2007, The Lyons Press ISBN 978-1-59921-112-1