Did Ernest Hemingway smoke?

American author Ernest Hemingway with Pauline, Gregory, John, and Patrick Hemingway and four marlins on the dock in Bimini, 20 July 1935. read more

Hemingway smoked cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. It did not apparently affect his health, even when, at his fiftieth birthday party, he allowed a friend to shoot a cigarette out of his mouth with a rifle. read more

Hemingway did not smoke. Fuente named a series of cigars after him, but they are trading in his image in general. read more

Hemingway & Gellhorn, he said, cannot be justified as “a great work of art” like Shakespeare’s Richard III that, in spite of its historical inaccuracy (“Richard III was not the villain!”), lives on as a “good play.” Hemingway & Gellhorn is just plain inaccurate. For starters, Hemingway did not smoke cigars. read more

Hemingway & Gellhorn is just plain inaccurate. For starters, Hemingway did not smoke cigars. Evidently, Hemingway said, the screenwriters “were fascinated by the Marx brothers” and “the intellectual Groucho who smoked the cigar.” So they reasoned, “If you get an intellectual like Hemingway, then you would smoke a cigar. read more