Gregory Hemingway
Gregory Hancock Hemingway (November 12, 1931 – October 1, 2001) was an American physician and the youngest son of author Ernest Hemingway and his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.[1][2] Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he pursued medicine, earning a degree and practicing as a general practitioner in locations including rural Montana.[1][3] Hemingway authored the memoir Papa: A Personal Memoir, chronicling his complex relationship with his father, and married four times, fathering eight children.[1][3] From childhood, he exhibited behaviors including cross-dressing, which persisted into adulthood and contributed to multiple arrests for indecent exposure and battery; in the 1990s, he underwent sex reassignment surgery and lived as a woman for several years.[1][2] He died of cardiovascular disease while incarcerated in Miami, Florida, following an arrest.[1][4]