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Hemingway's Home in Cuba, the Finca Vigía

Season 1 Episode 2 | 1m 56s

In the spring of 1939, Ernest Hemingway returned to Havana, Cuba where Martha Gellhorn would later join him. Martha rented the Finca Vigía, a 10-acre property outside the city where they could live together, which Hemingway would eventually buy and would become his home for the next two decades.

Corporate funding for HEMINGWAY was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by the Annenberg Foundation, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and by ‘The Better Angels Society,’ and its members John & Leslie McQuown, the Elizabeth Ruth Wallace Living Trust, John & Catherine Debs, The Fullerton Family Charitable Trust, the Kissick Family Foundation, Gail M. Elden, Gilchrist & Amy Berg, Robert & Beverly Grappone, Mauree Jane & Mark Perry; and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS.
Extras
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Hemingway writes The Old Man and the Sea but is overcome by mental illness.
In 1946, Hemingway married Mary Welsh, a Time and Life correspondent he met during WWII.
In the summer of 1953, Ernest and Mary survived two plane crashes while in Africa.
Tras alcanzar la fama, Hemingway hace un reportaje sobre la Guerra Civil española.
Hemingway, having achieved literary fame, goes to report on the Spanish Civil War.
Referring to himself as "Papa," Ernest Hemingway strived to be an expert on everything.
After a hurricane killed 259 veterans, Hemingway took aim at the Roosevelt administration.
Ernest Hemingway returned to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War.
Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn reported alongside each other during the Spanish Civil War.
Hemingway publica "El viejo y el mar", pero el deterioro de su estado mental lo supera.
Hemingway writes The Old Man and the Sea but is overcome by mental illness.
Tras alcanzar la fama, Hemingway hace un reportaje sobre la Guerra Civil española.
Hemingway, having achieved literary fame, goes to report on the Spanish Civil War.
Después de mudarse a París, Hemingway tiene éxito con su segunda novela, Adiós a las armas
Hemingway moves to Paris and finds success with his second novel, A Farewell to Arms.