Gloria Hemingway
Gloria Hemingway | |
|---|---|
 Hemingway in 1942 | |
| 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. |
| Education | University of Miami Medical School (MD) |
| Occupations | 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 Hemingway and John Hemingway |
| Parent(s) | Ernest Hemingway Pauline Pfeiffer |
| Relatives | Patrick Hemingway (brother) Jack Hemingway (half-brother) |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
Branch |  U.S. Army |
Service years | 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 assigned male at birth 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.
A good athlete and a crack shot, she trained as a professional hunter in Africa, but her alcoholism prevented her from gaining a license, and later led to the loss of her medical license in the United States. Hemingway maintained a long-running feud with her father, stemming from a 1951 incident when her arrest for entering a women's bathroom in a Los Angeles movie theater dressed in women's clothing caused an argument between Ernest and Pauline Pfeiffer, Gloria's mother. 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.