Valerie Hemingway

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Valerie Hemingway (* 1940 as Valerie Danby-Smith in Dublin , Ireland ) was the secretary of the writer Ernest Hemingway in 1959/1960 . In 1967 she married his son Gregory Hemingway . In 2004 she published her memoirs under the title “Running with the Bulls. My Years with the Hemingways ".

Life

She met Hemingway in May 1959 in Madrid , where she worked as an au pair and journalist for the Irish Times . The author offered her to work for him as a secretary during his stay in Spain. According to Valeries, a close relationship developed between the two. She then accompanied Hemingway to southern France and Paris. At the end of January 1960, she came to Cuba at the invitation of Hemingway. Allegedly, the author fell in love with the red-haired Irish woman. In Cuba she helped Hemingway with the drafting of his bullfighting article " Dangerous Summer " and the memory book " Paris - A Festival for Life ". In 1960 Hemingway left Cuba and Valerie went her own way. In New York she worked for Newsweek magazine and the theater. She met the Irish writer Brendan Behan . She had a son with him in 1962. After Hemingway's death in 1961, she accompanied his widow Mary Hemingway to Cuba in order to dissolve the household there. Above all, they secured the documents from the Hemingway estate. Valerie then worked for four years in the office of Hemingway publisher Scribner in New York, reviewing and organizing the Hemingway papers. In 1967 she married Hemingway's son Gregory, with whom she has three children. The marriage ended in divorce in 1989.

Works

  • Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways , Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (November 8, 2005) ISBN 978-0345467348
  • Correr con los toros (Memorias Y Biografias) , Fundación Universitaria Española, March 2005, ISBN 978-8430605811

Individual evidence

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SURNAME Hemingway, Valerie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danby-Smith, Valerie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish author, secretary to the writer Ernest Hemingway
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Ireland