Days Before His Suicide, Hemingway’s Hopeful Note to Sister Immaculata

In 1961, the author inscribed a book for the sister, a nurse who cared for him at the Mayo Clinic. Her copy of “The Old Man ...
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Hemingway was treated for depression at Mayo in Rochester. He died by suicide days after being discharged in 1961.

Professor Curtis DeBerg, an author and scholar on Ernest Hemingway, looks over a signed copy of “The Old Man and the Sea,” by Hemingway, during an event Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, at Assisi Heights ...
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Six decades after Hemingway's death, a signed copy of his book is gifted by Sisters of St. Francis

ROCHESTER — In 1961, Ernest Hemingway, then considered the world’s most famous author, came to Mayo Clinic for treatment for depression. It would form the last, ultimately tragic, chapter of his ...