friend reveals his regret for fear of fire was headed writer J. Edgar Hoover
For five decades, literary journalists, psychologists and biographers have tried to unravel what Ernest Hemingway committed suicide, shooting himself at his home in Idaho, while his wife, Mary slept. Some have criticized the growing realization of depression that the best days of his writing career had ended. Others said they suffered from a personality disorder.
Now, however, a friend of Hemingway and collaborator in the last 13 years of his life suggested another factor, have been described as a paranoid delusion of the Nobel prizewinner. Is that Hemingway was aware of his long FBI surveillance J. Edgar Hoover, who was suspicious of his ties with Cuba, and this may have helped push the edge.
Writing in the
New York Times
on the 50th anniversary of the death of Hemingway, AE Hotchner, author of
Dad Hemingway
and
Hemingway and his world
, said he believed the FBI surveillance "has greatly contributed to his anxiety and suicide" , adding that there was "terribly miscalculated" the fear of his friend of the organization.
Revaluationis important because it was precisely because of
Papa Hemingway
writer for fear of being operated and monitored by the FBI in the first the surface. Hotchner late change of heart sheds new light on the last part of the life of Hemingway and two incidents in particular.
In November 1960, Hotchner wrote, he was visiting and Mary Hemingway in Ketchum, Idaho, for an annual session of pheasant. Hemingway was behaving strangely, Hotchner recalls, "When our friend the Duke Ernest and MacMullen met my train in Shoshone, Idaho, for the unit of Ketchum, do not stop at the bar opposite the station as he did, because Ernesto as standing in the way. I asked why the rush. "Feds".
"Why the FBI agents pursuing? I asked.
"" is the worst hell. The goddamnedest hell. Have stuck around. That's why we use cars Duke. Mine bugged. Everything is blocked. You can not use the phone. Mail intercepted.
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