John Hemingway
{{short description|Canadian-American author (born 1960)}}
{{for|people with the same name|John Hemingway (disambiguation)}}
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| caption = Hemingway (right) in 2011
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| birth_name = John Patrick Hemingway
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|8|19|mf=y}}
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| parents = Gloria Hemingway
Alice Thomas
| relatives = Ernest Hemingway (paternal grandfather)
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John Patrick Hemingway (born August 19, 1960) is a Canadian-American author, whose memoir Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir examines the similarities and the complex relationship between his parent Gloria Hemingway and his grandfather, Ernest Hemingway; in particular it addresses the issue of the gender identity of Gloria, who was a trans woman.
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'Unità and Libero, and in American magazines and literary journals.
He has published the novel Bacchanalia: A Pamplona Story,{{Cite book
|title=Bacchanalia: A Pamplona Story|isbn=978-1708890544|last=Hemingway|first=John|date=18 November 2019}} inspired by his visits to the San Fermín festival, and has also prefaced the book Hemingway in Pamplona, by Miguel Izu.{{Cite book|first=Miguel|last=Izu|title=Hemingway in Pamplona|publisher=Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp |publication-date=21 March 2021|isbn=979-8717962384}}
Personal life
As revealed in his memoir, Strange Tribe, Hemingway had a difficult childhood. His parents suffered from mental illness, Gloria with bipolar disorder and his mother, Alice Thomas, with schizophrenia. 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 Gloria, a trans woman, could fit with the image that the public has of his grandfather as an icon of male masculinity.{{Cite book|last=Hemingway|first=John|title=Strange Tribe|year=2007|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1461749943}}
After leaving Italy and spending a year in Spain {{Cite web|title=John Patrick Hemingway awarded with the Guiri of the Year|date=10 July 2011|website=sanfermin.com|url=https://www.sanfermin.com/en/blog/j-p-hemingway-2011/}} and three months in the Medoc in France, Hemingway now lives with his wife, Kristina and daughter in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.{{Cite news
|last1=Fortini|first1=Amanda|title=The Importance of Not Being Ernest|date=24 October 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/magazine/the-importance-of-not-being-ernest.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721051624/www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/magazine/the-importance-of-not-being-ernest.html|archive-date=21 July 2023|url-status=live}}{{fv|date=September 2023}}
References
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External links
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- [http://johnhemingway.blogspot.com Personal blog]
- [http://www.supportwmfe.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7849 WMFE-FM The Arts Connection radio program.]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080516163124/http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/07/06/04.php The Diane Rehm Show radio interview]
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Category:American expatriate writers in Canada
Category:American expatriates in Italy
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:American expatriates in Spain