Hemingway's Marriage to Mary Welsh. His last days.

Hemingway did not stay in Europe for Armistice Day but returned to Paris with Mary Welsh.

He then went on to Finca Vigia in March 1945.

Guilty again about his failed marriage to Martha he fell into a state of alcohol and indulgence.

After drinking too many daiquiris he had another serious car crash.

On March 14 1946 with his divorce finalised from Martha he married Mary Welsh.

He also started work on two projects 'The Garden of Eden' and the first part of his proposed World War Two trilogy which was published after his death as 'Islands in the Stream'. His health was deteriorating and his drinking had increased. His writing had almost come to a grinding stop and with the death of many of his close friends including his second wife Pauline Pfieffer, his mother and his publisher, Charles Scribner, Hemingway often found himself contemplating his life and what he felt was his immediate death.

Hemingway and Mary went to Northern Italy so he could relive his ambulance driving days.

He met a woman called Adriana Ivancich and fell in love with her. This meeting inspired 'Across the River and Into the Trees'.

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The novel was panned by critics but Hemingway quickly followed that novel with 'The Old Man and the Sea' which won him critical acclaim again and he won the Pulitzer Prize in May 1953.

In June 1953 Hemingway and Mary went to Europe, Hemingway was planning an appendix to 'Death in the Afternoon'.

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He travelled on to Mombassa and here he conducted a ritual courtship with a young Wakambu girl.

His accidents continued in 1954 and he had two plane crashes, the second so serious that once again news of his death was published. He returned to Cuba only partly recovered from his serious injuries and saw Adriana for the last time.

On 28 October 1954 Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was too ill to receive the award in Stockholm but held a party at Finca Vigia.

Filming of the 'Old Man and the Sea' started in in the mid 50's and he became involved in that.

He was in Europe from September 1956 to January 1957 and he set sail for Spain in May 1959, a month after Fidel Castro's troops entered Havana.

When he returned to Havana in early November he publicly declared his support for the revolutionaries.

In the Spring of 1960 he completed his memoirs of life in Paris in the early twenties called a 'Moveable Feast'.

Hemingway left Cuba for the last time in July 1960.

He was already showing signs of mental illness, his health had collapsed and he was forced more and more to rely on alcohol.

In August he went to Spain alone but was forced to cut short his trip and return to Idaho.

On 30th November he was admitted to the Mayo Clinic for the first time. He stayed about a month.

He was readmitted three months later and stayed another two months.

He'd found his memory had gone and he couldn't write any more.

Hemingway killed himself on a log cabin in Ketcham, Idaho on Sunday 2 July 1961. He tripped the trigger of his double barelled shotgun and was instantly killed.

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