Talk:Ernest Hemingway

In the section regarding his suicide, it says that 'it was anathema for a man of Hemingway's generation to accept he suffered from mental illness'. I looked up this word and it doesn't seem to make any sense, even if someone knows the definition. Also, I don't know how to make a topic underneath the above suicide section, so I did this instead. I also couldn't figure out how to edit. Thank you. Gamelizard (talk) 22:19, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

What are you proposing to change this to? Nikkimaria (talk) 03:54, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I'm wavering on whether the sentence should be included at all, but I suppose an adequate substitute would be 'difficult', 'rare', 'uncommon', as they all serve the broad purpose. Perhaps uncommon would be best suited. Gamelizard (talk) 04:38, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I think anathema is more reflective than uncommon - it was not just that it was rare, but it was something people were emotionally opposed to. Nikkimaria (talk) 23:39, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

It means 'taboo'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.6.70.208 (talk) 18:45, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

He actually was followed by the FBI from 1942-1974; he wasn't just 'paranoid'. This is public knowledge now, and adds a lot to the narrative of his later life and potential causes of his suicide. ~2025-37708-73 (talk) 14:25, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes, it's mentioned in the first paragraph in the #World War II section and mentioned again throughout. Victoria (tk) 21:59, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Since editing this entry does not seem permitted, will be curious to see if the facts from the following NYTimes story today about the very personal autographed copy of The Old Man and the Sea that Hemingway left for one of the nuns who cared for him at the Mayo Clinic just days before he killed himself will be added, perhaps to the "Legacy" section:

Here's link to story headlined "Days Before His Suicide,Hemingway's Hopeful Note to Sister Immaculata" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/arts/hemingway-book-nobel-sister-immaculata.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mwprods2 (talk • contribs) 17:41, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

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A suggestion to better format the page: Putting all points from "Early Life" to "Idaho and Suicide" underneath a heading called "Biography", and putting "Writing Style" and "Themes" underneath a heading called "Writing". This is purely to simplify the organization of the page, and to bring this in line with other larger wikipedia pages on individuals, as those are also usually separated as such or very similarly. Dinoking2000 (talk) 19:48, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

To clarify, Biography and Writing would be main headings, and all headings currently in the page would become subheadings under each respectively, not removed. Dinoking2000 (talk) 19:49, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

While there are pages that use "Biography" as a heading, using more specific headings is generally more appropriate - the whole article is a biography. Nikkimaria (talk) 05:20, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

What's the reasoning behind this revert beyond "dup[licate]"? Shouldn't birth_name be a standard for most biographical articles? Arbor to SJ (talk) 02:59, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Only when the person's name later changed; here it did not. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:03, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

I thought birth_name always reflected the full name different from the article title. Arbor to SJ (talk) 12:49, 14 March 2026 (UTC)