- ^ On awarding the medal, the Italians wrote of Hemingway: "Gravely wounded by numerous pieces of shrapnel from an enemy shell, with an admirable spirit of brotherhood, before taking care of himself, he rendered generous assistance to the Italian soldiers more seriously wounded by the same explosion and did not allow himself to be carried elsewhere until after they had been evacuated." See Mellow (1992), p. 61
- ^ Clarence Hemingway used his father's Civil War pistol to shoot himself. See Meyers (1985), 2
- ^ She would undergo sex reassignment surgery in the mid-1990s and took the name Gloria Hemingway. See "Hemingway legacy feud 'resolved'" Archived May 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. BBC News. October 3, 2003. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
- ^ The Garden of Eden was published posthumously in 1986. See Meyers (1985), 436
- ^ The manuscript for The Sea Book was published posthumously as Islands in the Stream in 1970. See Mellow (1992), 552
- ^ The FBI had opened a file on him during World War II, when he used the Pilar to patrol the waters off Cuba, and J. Edgar Hoover had an agent in Havana watch him during the 1950s, see Mellow (1992), 597–598; and appeared to be monitoring his movements at that time, as an agent documented in a letter written a few months later, in January 1961, about Hemingway's stay at the Mayo clinic. see Meyers (1985), 543–544
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