#ErnestHemingway January 25

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For January 2024 several of us will be participating in the “30-Day 6 Degrees of Separation Coach4aday Challenge”-today we dive into connections between ERNEST HEMINGWAY and his great-granddaughter Dree Hemingway

Part of my reason for selecting today’s connections is because of ties to Key West FL. It is one of my favorite vacation destiantions.

Ernest Hemingway, born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, was an influential American novelist and short story writer. Renowned for his terse and economical writing style, Hemingway became a literary icon of the 20th century. His notable works include “The Old Man and the Sea,” “A Farewell to Arms,” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” earning him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Ernest Hemingway had a significant connection to Key West, Florida, where he lived for a substantial part of the 1930s. Hemingway and his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, purchased a Spanish colonial-style house in Key West in 1931, and the home is now a museum known as the Hemingway House.

Rules of the Challenge

Many people have heard of this concept. The notion of six degrees of separation grew out of work conducted by the social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s. It then became a 1993 film named appropriately “Six Degrees of Separation.”

Organizing a six degrees of separation challenge involves creating a chain of people, each connected to the next by a mutual acquaintance. The goal is to demonstrate that any two people in the world can be connected through a chain of six or fewer personal connections.

How to Participate

Here is how to participate:

1. Identify the First and Last Person in the Chain.
2. Go thru the connections with a brief explanation.
3. Do this daily for 30 Days posting on social media with the hashtag #Coach4adayChallenge

Day 25-Ernest Hemingway to Dree Hemingway

4 Degrees of Separation-Ernest Hemingway-Jack Hemingway-Mariel Hemingway-Dree Hemingway

1. Ernest Hemingway was married three times and did have three children Jack, Patrick, and Gloria. His first wife was Elizabeth Hadley Richardson who he married in 1921 and had one child (Jack). Hadley and Ernest divorced in 1927 after she discovered he was having an affair with her best friend Pauline Pfeiffer. Hemingway would marry Pauline and Patrick and Gloria were children from that marriage.
2. Jack Hemingway would serve in WWII and his last duty station was Ft. Bragg (now Ft. Liberty). He would marry Byra Louise “Puck” Whittlesey on June 25, 1949, in Paris. They would have three children the youngest being Mariel Hadley Hemingway born in 1961.
3. Mariel Hemingway is an actress who married Stephen Crisman and had two children Dree Hemingway and Langley Fox.
4. Dree Hemingway was born in Idaho and ironically attended Ernest Hemingway Elementary School.

Here is a video on Dree Hemingway