Why Hemingway Committed Suicide

Hemingway created a macho image for himself and denounced in his fiction those who committed suicide as cowards, yet took his own life on July 2, 1961, weeks before his 62nd birthday. Join Professor Peter Hays and Psychologist Captane Thomson for this thought-provoking session. What were the reasons: circumstances of birth, physical, psychological and emotional? We will discuss the probable causes.

Suggested reading: Not required, but useful: Hemingway’s Brain by Dr. Andrew Farrar