tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post2668306168533623355..comments2024-03-29T04:12:48.987+08:00Comments on The Reading Life: Ernest Hemingway A Biography by Mary Dearborn (forthcoming May, 2017,
752 pages)Mel uhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-6234066892730308712017-04-28T08:46:39.073+08:002017-04-28T08:46:39.073+08:00Anonymous commentator. Thanks very much for shari...Anonymous commentator. Thanks very much for sharing your insights Mel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-11897590011339029172017-04-28T00:50:57.610+08:002017-04-28T00:50:57.610+08:00Tea Norman- I've read all the Hemingway biogra...Tea Norman- I've read all the Hemingway biographies and can't wait to read this one. To answer your question about his suicide, well, there were many contributing factors. Alcoholism was certainly a huge factor, compounded with deep depression which he battled all his life. Many people overlook how banged up he was from two plane crashes in Africa in 1954. Even his son John said he wasn't the same after those crashes. He was in constant pain and had serious head trauma from the crashes and a series of concussions- at least six I am told. He had numerous health problems, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, hemochromatosis, enlarged liver, crushed vertebrae, damaged kidneys and spleen, etc. What is amazing is how long he did last with all these problems! He used to take handfuls of seconal just to go to sleep, and a medication he took for his blood pressure may have contributed to his depression. Essentially, his nervous system was shot and he became paranoid and delusional the last two years of his life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-16893962825578097462016-10-05T14:19:19.697+08:002016-10-05T14:19:19.697+08:00Tea Norman. The consensus is Hemingway could not ...Tea Norman. The consensus is Hemingway could not deal with his declining creative and physical powers. It might have been his life long very heavy drinking took him into cognitive decline. Thanks very much for your comment.Mel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-36155778499508367662016-09-17T17:47:40.631+08:002016-09-17T17:47:40.631+08:00I would love to read it. I don't know much abo...I would love to read it. I don't know much about Ernest Hemingway's life. I do know about the suicide, but why did he do it? That is a puzzle to me. He was a great author.Teahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04246834295123351186noreply@blogger.com