Jack Hemingway, outdoorsman writer, 76

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Saturday December 2 5:24 AM ET

Outdoorsman Jack Hemingway Dies 

NEW YORK (AP) - Jack Hemingway, an Idaho outdoorsman, writer and son of
author Ernest Hemingway, has died. He was 76.

Members of Hemingway's family decided Friday to remove him from life
support systems at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical
Center. Complications arose from a heart operation while visiting the
city.

He is the father of actress Mariel Hemingway, actress-model Margaux, who
died of a drug overdose in 1996, and an older daughter, Muffet.

His early life was recounted in his father's ``A Moveable Feast.''

The boy, nicknamed ``Bumby,'' spent his toddler years in Parisian cafes
frequented by writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gertrude Stein and her
partner, Alice B. Toklas, were his godparents and frequently baby-sat him.

As a teen-ager, he and his father bonded by hunting, fishing and boxing in
Pamplona, Spain; Havana, and Key West, Fla. The elder Hemingway committed
suicide in 1961.

Hemingway recalled their relationship in his 1986 memoir, ``The
Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With and Without Papa.'' He also
wrote at least three other books on fishing and penned the afterword for
``Hemingway on Fishing,'' a recently released compilation of his father's
writings about the sport.

He was a decorated World War II veteran who spent six months in a German
prisoner of war camp.

A longtime Idaho resident, he served as a member of the state's fish and
game commission in the 1970s.

He spent part of his recent years, along with his two half brothers,
overseeing licensing agreements of products bearing the Ernest Hemingway
name. They include sports clothes and a collection of furniture, clocks
and other accessories.

A memorial for Hemingway will take place in New York on Dec. 9 and burial
will be in the Sun Valley, Idaho, area. 



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