Mariel Hemingway was born in 1961, almost five months after her grandfather, Ernest, took his own life in the nondescript foyer of a house in Ketchum, Idaho. As a kid, she avoided that room at all costs. Barring the living Kennedys, there is perhaps no one in America who is as haunte...
(Mariel's father Jack was the son of Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley.) On July 2, 1961, he abruptly ended his own life with a shotgun in the vestibule of his home in Ketchum, the town adjacent to Sun Valley. Hemingway's father and two siblings also died by their own hands. ...
Mariel Hemingway (left, in her baptism portrait) grew up in the small mountain town of Ketchum, Idaho, with her older sisters Muffet and Margaux, and her parents, Byra and Jack, the eldest son of Ernest Hemingway. The couple fought constantly. "My house wasn't sane," Mariel told corresp...
Mariel Hemingway grew up in the small mountain town of Ketchum, Idaho, with her older sisters Muffet and Margaux, and her parents, Byra and Jack, the eldest son of Ernest Hemingway. The parents' relationship was miserable. "I spent a lot of time outside hiking because my house wasn't s...