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  1. Jul 1, 2016 · July 2, 1961 — Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize-winning author, adventurer, war correspondent, bullfighter, drinker and all-round macho man, blew his own brains out on this day. His fourth wife, Mary, said that he killed himself accidentally while cleaning his double-barrelled 12-gauge shotgun. But did he?

  2. May 27, 2017 · Early on the morning of July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway tip-toed to the basement of his home in Ketchum, Idaho, and blew his brains out with his favorite shotgun. It was not an unexpected end.

  3. May 9, 2018 · Why Ernest Hemingway Committed Suicide. Above: Accidentally pulling a skylight onto his head in his 20s left a permanent welt that lasted for the rest of Hemingway’s life; it also gave him one of the many serious concussions he suffered over the years, which may have given him a traumatic brain injury, which may in turn partly explain some of ...

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  4. Sep 26, 2017 · An Interview With Andrew Farah, MD, Author of Hemingway’s Brain. In Dr. Andrew Farah’s new biography of Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway’s Brain, he details the neuropsychiatric demise of a great literary mind. Dr. Farah argues that Hemingway suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as the result of numerous severe concussions during his life, and this ultimate dementia was ...

  5. Apr 8, 2021 · Thursday Apr. 8th, 2021. The perils of being a drugged-up insomniac celebrity in mainstream psychiatric care. Sixty years ago (July 2, 1961) an American literary icon, Ernest Hemingway, committed suicide at his beloved vacation retreat in Ketchum, Idaho. He had just flown to Ketchum after being discharged from a psychiatric ward at the Mayo ...

  6. Jun 8, 2024 · The physical decline Hemingway experienced in his later years, coupled with his ongoing mental health battles, created a perfect storm that led to his tragic decision. For Hemingway, suicide may have seemed like the only way to escape the relentless pain and suffering he endured. Ernest Hemingway’s Literary Legacy and Personal Demons

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  8. Aug 2, 2022 · Published August 2, 2022. Ernest Hemingway famously struggled with alcoholism and mental illness for decades before taking his own life in 1961. Public Domain Ernest Hemingway in Cuba in 1954. Ernest Hemingway was one of the most celebrated writers of the 20th century. With his novels such as The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea still ...