Mary Welsh Hemingway
Mary Welsh Hemingway (née Welsh; April 5, 1908 – November 26, 1986) was an American journalist and author who was the fourth wife and widow of Ernest Hemingway.
Mary Welsh Hemingway
November 26, 1986 (aged 78)
Ketchum, Idaho, U.S.
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Lawrence Miller Cook(m. 1938, divorced)
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Noel Monks(div. 1945)
Early life[edit]
Born in Walker, Minnesota, Welsh was a daughter of a lumberman. In 1938, she married Lawrence Miller Cook, a drama student from Ohio. Their life together was short and they soon separated. After the separation, Mary moved to Chicago and began working at the Chicago Daily News, where she met Will Lang Jr. The two formed a friendship and worked together on several assignments. A career move presented itself during a vacation in London when Mary started a new job at the London Daily Express. The position soon brought her assignments in Paris during the years preceding World War II.[1]
As a journalist covering World War II[edit]
After the fall of France in 1940, Welsh returned to London as a base to cover the events of the War.[2] She also attended and reported on the press conferences of Winston Churchill.[2]
During the war she married her second husband, Australian journalist Noel Monks.[1]
Later life[edit]
Following Ernest's suicide in 1961, Mary acted as his literary executor, and was responsible for the publication of A Moveable Feast, Islands in the Stream, The Garden of Eden, and other posthumous works. She gave the manuscript of A Moveable Feast to Tatiana Kudriavtseva, a translator from the Soviet Union, who was able then to publish a Russian translation simultaneous with the original's publication in English.[8]
In 1976, she wrote her autobiography, How It Was. Further biographical details of Mary Welsh Hemingway can be found in the numerous Hemingway biographies, and in Bernice Kert's The Hemingway Women.[2]
In her later years, Mary moved to New York City, where she lived in an apartment on 65th Street. After a prolonged illness, she died in St. Luke's Hospital at age 78, on November 26, 1986. In her will, she had stipulated that she be buried in Ketchum next to Ernest, where they are now interred together.[1][9]