Hemingway family photos
Hemingway House, Key West, Florida
What
John Hemingway, grandson of the Nobel Prize winning 20th century author, has written a memoir, Strange Tribe, about his family and will share excerpts from it.
Strange Tribe is a troubling but poignant memoir of the relationship between fathers and sons in this iconic literary family. John recounts both a sense of his father Gregory’s troubled past as Ernest Hemingway’s third and youngest son, and Gregory’s own history as a troubled parent to the next generation.When
Gregory Hemingway died at Miami’s Women’s Correctional Facility in 2001 after being arrested for indecent exposure as Gloria Hemingway, the post sex change identity he had adopted. To borrow from a Hemingway metaphor, this is only the tip of the iceberg in Strange Tribe’s recounting of Gregory’s struggle with his identity, and thus, his impact on his son John.
In this compelling memoir, John shares a very personal account of his own and his father’s legacy as Hemingways living in the larger-than-life shadow of Ernest. John reveals a surprising sense of ways that Ernest and Gregory, both suffering from bipolar episodes and both interested in androgyny, were "two sides of the same coin," a subject that has been explored with great interest by Hemingway critics in the last decade or so of gender studies.
John Hemingway is a writer and translator who currently lives in Canada with his wife, Ornella, and their two children, Michael and Jacqueline.
April 17th, 7:30
Where
First Congregational Church, 225 S. Interlachen Avenue, Winter Park.
Who
Sponsored by Rollins College and the Master of Liberal Studies Program
Cost
The event is free and open to the public.
(Source: Cabaret Party, Photo Credit: My Hemingway House photo set on Flickr)