Ernest Hemingway was married four times

One fact from the list of interesting facts about Ernest Hemingway is that Ernest Hemingway was married four times:

Hadley Richardson, Hemingway's first wife, was born in Missouri in 1891. In 1920, the couple met at a party in Chicago and married within a year. They first lived in Paris before relocating to Toronto. During their marriage, he allegedly had an affair with Pauline 'Fife' Pfeiffer, who later became his second wife. Hadley died in 1979, at the age of 87.

In 1927, Hemingway married Fife Pfeiffer. Pauline was born in Iowa in 1895 and was known to her friends as Fife. She was a skilled journalist who worked for Vogue in Paris. Fife was well-known for providing feedback on Hemingway's work, including his debut novel, The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway then had an affair with Martha Gellhorn, who became his next wife, similar to what happened with his first wife. Fife died in 1951, at the age of 56.

Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, his third wife. They married between 1940 and 1945. Hemingway married Martha just 16 days after his divorce from Fife was finalized. Their union, however, would be the shortest of his marriages, lasting only five years. Martha Hemingway was the most career-oriented of Hemingway's four wives. She was a novelist and war correspondent who covered every major international conflict during her six decades as a journalist. She was born in Missouri in 1908. The amount of time she spent away from home while covering the news was one of the factors that contributed to the couple's divorce. Hemingway seemed resentful of this, writing her in 1943, "Are you a war correspondent, or wife in my bed?" Martha died in 1998, at the age of 89.

Hemingway's fourth wife was Mary Welsh. They were married from 1946 to 1961. Mary Welsh, a journalist, was the novelist's fourth and final wife. The couple met in 1944 while they were both married to other people, but they married in 1946. As his mental health deteriorated, the couple relocated to Ketchum. Hemingway committed suicide in 1961, and Mary died in 1968 in New York at the age of 78.