Pauline Pfeiffer

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Ernest and Pauline Hemingway in Paris, 1927

Pauline Marie Pfeiffer (born July 28, 1895 in Parkersburg , Iowa , † October 1, 1951 ) was an American journalist and the second wife of the author Ernest Hemingway .

Life

Pfeiffer was born the daughter of Paul, a real estate agent, and Mary Pfeiffer. Pauline's family was rich and Catholic. In 1901 they moved to St. Louis . There she attended the Visitation Academy of St. Louis. Her family moved her family to Piggott, Arkansas while Pauline Pfeiffer was studying at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, graduating in 1918. She then worked for the Cleveland Press in Cleveland and The Daily Telegraph New York. Pfeiffer later switched to magazines such as Vanity Fair and Vogue .

When she moved to Paris for Vogue, she met Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley Richardson there in 1926 .

In the spring of 1926 Hadley Richardson became aware of the affair between Ernest Hemingway and Pauline. In July 1926 Pauline accompanied the couple on their annual trip to Pamplona . Upon their return to Paris, the couple decided to separate and Hadley filed for divorce in November 1926. In January 1927 she was officially divorced.

Ernest Hemingway married Pauline civilly on the morning of May 10, 1927 and in church in the afternoon. Before getting married, Hemingway converted to Catholicism. They spent the subsequent honeymoon in Le Grau-du-Roi . At the end of the year, pregnant Pauline wanted to return to America. John Dos Passos recommended Key West and the couple left Paris in March 1928.

On June 27, 1928, she gave birth to her son Patrick . Hemingway dealt with Pfeiffer's difficult delivery in the novel In Another Land . Catherine Barkley , a professional nurse, dies of bleeding after giving birth to her stillborn child in hospital.

The youngest son Gregory was born in 1931.

Since Pfeiffer was strictly Catholic , she supported the nationalists in the Spanish Civil War , while Hemingway sided with the Republicans .

In 1937 Hemingway began an affair with Martha Gellhorn on a trip to Spain . On November 4, 1940, Pfeiffer and Hemingway were divorced. Three weeks later he married Gellhorn.

She spent the rest of her life in Key West , opening an upholstery business. During this time she traveled frequently to California to visit her sister. She died on October 1, 1951 in the Saint Vincent Hospital in Los Angeles . Her death has been linked to the shock she would have received from the arrest of her son Gregory and the subsequent phone call to Ernest. Gregory had problems with his gender identity for most of his life and was arrested for using the ladies room in a movie theater as a man. Years later, when Gregory was a doctor, he interpreted his mother's autopsy report and found evidence of a pheochromocytomic tumor on her adrenal glands . He said that because of the phone call with Ernest, the tumor released too much adrenaline . Thereafter, the adrenaline was stopped. The blood pressure would have changed too much and she would have suffered a shock that caused death.

Web links

Commons : Pauline Pfeiffer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Tuscaloosa News - Google News archive search. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 1900 United States Federal Census
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Kert, Bernice, The Hemingway Women: Those Who Loved Him - the Wives and Others , WW Norton & Co., New York, 1983.
  4. ^ Carlos Baker: Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story . Ed .: Charles Scribner's Sons. New York 1969, ISBN 978-0-02-001690-8 , pp. 43 .
  5. ↑ James R. Mellow: Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences . Ed .: Houghton Milffin. New York 1992, ISBN 0-395-37777-3 , pp. 333 .
  6. ^ Mellow, James R .: Hemingway: a life without consequences . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1992, ISBN 0-395-37777-3 , pp. 338-340 .
  7. ^ Mellow, James R .: Hemingway: a life without consequences . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1992, ISBN 0-395-37777-3 , pp. 294 .
  8. ^ Meyers, Jeffrey .: Hemingway: a biography . Macmillan, London 1986, ISBN 0-333-42126-4 , pp. 172 .
  9. ^ Mellow, James R .: Hemingway: a life without consequences . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1992, ISBN 0-395-37777-3 , pp. 348-353 .
  10. ^ Meyers, Jeffrey .: Hemingway: a biography . Macmillan, London 1986, ISBN 0-333-42126-4 , pp. 204 .
  11. ^ Pauline Pfeiffer Background. Retrieved July 24, 2019 (American English).
  12. ↑ The Strange Saga of Gregory Hemingway. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Gloria Hemingway (1931-2001) writer, doctor. .
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeiffer, Pauline Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and second wife of the author Ernest Hemingway
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Parkersburg , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1951