Patrick Hemingway

Patrick Miller Hemingway (June 28, 1928 – September 2, 2025) was an American wildlife manager and writer who was novelist Ernest Hemingway's second son and the first born to Hemingway's second wife Pauline Pfeiffer. In 1940, his parents divorced, after which his father married Martha Gellhorn. After their marriage, they moved to Cuba where Patrick visited often . He enrolled at Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, graduating in 1946 . At the beginning of World War II, Hemingway helped crew his father's boat, the Pilar, on improvised missions to hunt for German U-boats operating in the Gulf of Mexico. Patrick attended Stanford University for two years, transferred to Harvard and graduated in 1950 with a BA in History and Literature.

Hemingway, Ken Burns's six-hour documentary on Hemingway's life and writing, contains photographs and film footage of Hemingway, including interviews with him about his life with his father.

Hemingway was married to Henrietta Broyles, with whom he had a daughter, Mina Hemingway (born 1960). He remarried after Broyles's death, to Carol Thompson. He died on September 2, 2025, in Bozeman, Montana, at the age of 97. He and his wife moved to Africa, where he lived for 25 years. He started his safari business, called Tanganyika Safari Business, near Mount Kilimanjaro in 1955, which he gave up in the early 1960s when his wife was ill. and his wife Henrietta died in 1963. When he left Africa he moved to Bozeman, Montana, where he lived from 1975 until his death. Toward the end of the trip Ernest Hemingway was in two successive plane crashes and was reported dead. He sustained a severe head injury which went largely undiagnosed until he left Africa. Upon his return to Cuba he worked sporadically on True at First Light, but eventually set it aside. He had been present with his father during much of the expedition and was familiar with the events of Africa during that year, which he describes in the foreword to True at First Light.

Additional writing Hemingway contributed the introductions to the 1990 edition of Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa and the 1991 edition of Valley of Life: Africa's Great Rift; the forewords to the 2003 posthumous collections Hemingway on Hunting and Hemingway on War; and a foreword to the 2009 restored edition of his father's A Moveable Feast. For the 2012 special edition of A Farewell to Arms, containing all 47 alternative endings, Patrick wrote a personal foreword. In 2022, he published Dear Papa, a collection of correspondence between him and his father.