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Days Before He Died, Ernest Hemingway Gifted a Signed Book to a Mayo Nurse. Now It's Headed to a Museum
The signed Hemingway book, inscribed during his 1961 hospital stay, was donated by the Sisters of St. Francis to enrich the Nobel Prize Museum's Hemingway collection.
- A signed copy of The Old Man and the Sea was presented on Monday by the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester to Curtis DeBerg for donation to the Nobel Prize Museum.
- Curtis DeBerg discovered the signed book during a pandemic-era visit to Saint Marys Hospital and, after touring the Nobel Prize Museum, offered it for display, coordinating the donation for early next year.
- The signed volume sat in a hospital vault and later in Assisi Heights storage after Ernest Hemingway inscribed it to Sister Immaculata on June 16, 1961, passing among the sisters for decades.
- The donation positions the volume for public display at the Nobel Prize Museum, as Curtis DeBerg will transport the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning The Old Man and the Sea early next year.
- Sister Edith Zamboni recalled sneaking into Hemingway's room, where reporting and scholarship have questioned Mayo's treatment during his stay, giving added poignancy to the inscription.
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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 adventurous life. Six days after being discharged from Saint Marys Hospital, Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun at his Idaho home. On Monday, in a ceremony reminiscent of a sacred object changing hands, a signed edition of Hemingway’s book, “The Old…
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