Gloria Hemingway | |
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| Born | Gregory Hancock Hemingway November 12, 1931 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | October 1, 2001 (aged 69) Key Biscayne, Florida, U.S. |
| Resting place | Ketchum Cemetery Ketchum, Idaho, U.S. |
| Other names | Vanessa |
| Alma mater | University of Miami Medical School (MD) |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, writer |
| Spouses | Shirley Jane Rhodes
(m. 1951; div. 1956)Alice Thomas
(m. 1959; div. 1967)Valerie Danby-Smith
(m. 1967; div. 1989)Ida Mae Galliher
(m. 1992; div. 1995)
(m. 1997) |
| Children | 8, including Lorian and John |
| Parent(s) | Ernest Hemingway Pauline Pfeiffer |
| Relatives | Patrick Hemingway (brother) Jack Hemingway (half-brother) |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Service |  U.S. Army |
| Years of service | 1956 |
| Rank | Private |
Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway, November 12, 1931 – October 1, 2001) was an American physician and writer who was the third and youngest child of author Ernest Hemingway. Although she was born a male and lived most of her life publicly as a man, she struggled with her gender identity from a young age. In her 60s, she underwent gender transition surgery, and preferred the name Gloria when possible.
A good athlete and a crack shot, Gloria longed to be a typical Hemingway hero and trained as a professional hunter in Africa, but her alcoholism prevented her from gaining a license, and it ultimately cost her her medical license in the United States. Gloria maintained a long-running feud with her father, stemming from a 1951 incident when her arrest for entering a bar in drag caused an argument between Ernest and Gloria's mother Pauline Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer died from a stress-related condition the following day, which Ernest blamed on Gloria.
In 1976, she authored a bestselling memoir of her father, Papa: A Personal Memoir, which was seen by some to reflect troubles of her own. These included wearing women's clothes, which she ascribed to gender dysphoria.