Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). Celebrated American author, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway first met the vivacious and intelligent Mary Welsh in May 1944. At that time his marriage to Martha Gellborn was already on skids, then ended when she displayed an insensitive bedside manner while visiting Hemingway in London after a serious automobile accident. He became infatuated with Mary and was reunited with her after the liberation of Paris. Though friends expected their marriage in 1946 to collapse quickly, it endured until July 1961 when Hemingway committed suicide.
