Patrick Miller Hemingway (born June 28, 1928) is an American wildlife manager and writer who is novelist

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fic ...

's second son, and the first born to Hemingway's second wife

Pauline Pfeiffer Pauline Marie Pfeiffer (July 22, 1895 – October 1, 1951) was an American journalist, and the second wife of writer Ernest Hemingway.Harris, Peggy (Associated Press) (30 July 2000)Ernest Hemingway Museum Popular in Quiet Farm Town ''The Tusc ...

. During his childhood he travelled frequently with his parents, and then attended

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, graduated in 1950, and shortly thereafter moved to

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where he lived for 25 years. In

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

, Patrick was a professional

big-game hunter Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game animals for meat, commercially valuable by-products (such as horns/antlers, furs, tusks, bones, body fat/oil, or special organs and contents), trophy/taxidermy, or simply just for recreation ("spo ...

and for over a decade he owned a

safari A safari (; ) is an overland journey to observe wild animals, especially in eastern or southern Africa. The so-called "Big Five" game animals of Africa – lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and Cape buffalo – particularly form an importa ...

business. In the 1960s he was appointed by the

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to the Wildlife Management College in Tanzania as a teacher of conservation and wildlife. In the 1970s he moved to

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where he managed the intellectual property of his father's estate. He edited his father's unpublished novel about a 1950s safari to Africa and published it with the title '' True at First Light'' (1999).

Personal life

Born in

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, he traveled with his parents to Europe in 1929 and again in 1933, to

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and

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during his summers, though his permanent residence was in

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.Hemingway on Hemingway
Idaho Mountain Express. Retrieved 2010-02-09 In 1940, his parents divorced, after which his father married

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. After their marriage, they moved to

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where Patrick visited often.Mellow p. 523 At the beginning of World War II, Patrick helped crew his father's boat, the Pilar, on improvised missions to hunt for German

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operating in the

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. Patrick attended

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for two years, transferred to

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and graduated in 1950 with a BA in

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and

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. On April 5, 2021, ''Hemingway'', a three-episode, six-hour documentary, a recapitulation of Hemingway's life, labors, and loves, debuted on the

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. It was co-produced and directed by

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and

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. It contains considerable footage and photographs of Patrick, and interviews with him about his life with his father. Patrick was married to Henrietta Broyles, with whom he has a daughter, Mina Hemingway (born 1960).

Africa

Having studied agriculture at his mother's plantation in

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, Patrick used his inheritance after her death to buy a farm near

Dar-es-Salaam Dar es Salaam (; from ar, دَار السَّلَام, Dâr es-Selâm, lit=Abode of Peace) or commonly known as Dar, is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania. It is also the capital of Dar es Salaam Region. With a population of over ...

.Meyers p. 498 He and his wife moved to Africa, where he lived for 25 years. Patrick lived for much of his life in

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where he ran a

expedition company; served as a

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to wealthy patrons; and as an honorary game warden in

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, and

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Princeton University Library. Retrieved 2010-02-09 He started his safari business, called Tanganyika Safari Business, near

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in 1955, which he gave up in the early 1960s when his wife was ill. For 12 years he taught conservation of wildlife at the

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, as part of his job as forestry officer in the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the

. The College of African Wildlife Management at Mweka trains armed officers to enforce wildlife protection laws in

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. His father Ernest died in 1961, and his wife Henrietta died in 1963.Oliver p.148 When he left Africa he moved to Bozeman, Montana, where he has lived since 1975. He oversees the management of Ernest Hemingway's intellectual property, which includes projects in publishing, electronic media, and movies in the United States and worldwide.

''True at First Light''

Hemingway edited his father's "Africa book" that was published in 1999 with the title '' True at First Light''. The book is a blend of fact and fiction from the

expedition Ernest and fourth wife

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went on from late 1953 to early 1954, in part to visit Patrick and his wife. Toward the end of the trip Ernest Hemingway was in two successive plane crashes and was reported dead. He sustained a severe

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which went largely undiagnosed until he left Africa. Upon his return to

he worked sporadically on ''True at First Light'', but eventually set it aside. The manuscript was in the John F. Kennedy Library Hemingway Archives, and Patrick edited the 800 pages down to half the size. 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" to ''True at First Light''.

Additional writing

Hemingway contributed an introduction to the 1990 ''

Green Hills of Africa ''Green Hills of Africa'' is a 1935 work of nonfiction by American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, ''Green Hills of Africa'' is an account of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East ...

''; the 1991 ''Valley of Life: Africa's Great Rift''; the 2003'' Hemingway on Hunting''; the 2003 ''Hemingway on War''; and a "foreword" to the 2009 republished edition of his father's ''

A Moveable Feast ''A Moveable Feast'' is a 1964 memoir '' belles-lettres'' by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expat journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. It was published posthumously. The book details Hemingway's firs ...

''. For the 2012 special edition of ''

A Farewell to Arms ''A Farewell to Arms'' is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant () in the am ...

'', containing all forty-seven alternative endings, Patrick wrote a personal foreword. His nephew, grandson of Ernest Hemingway, Seán Hemingway, wrote the introduction.

References

Sources

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External links

The Patrick Hemingway Papers at Princeton University
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