Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Margaux Hemingway
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
== Early life == Margot Louise Hemingway was born February 16, 1954, in [[Portland, Oregon]], the second of three daughters born to Byra Louise (née Whittlesey) and [[Jack Hemingway]] (eldest child of writer Ernest Hemingway). When she learned that she was named after the wine [[Château Margaux]], which her parents drank on the night she was conceived, she changed the spelling from "Margot" to "Margaux" to match.<ref name=nyt/> She had two sisters, actress [[Mariel Hemingway]] and Joan (nicknamed Muffet). During her childhood, the family relocated from Oregon to [[Cuba]], where her grandfather had lived,<ref name=nyt/> then to [[San Francisco]], and later to [[Idaho]], where they lived on her grandfather's farm in [[Ketchum, Idaho|Ketchum]], adjacent to {{nowrap|[[Sun Valley, Idaho|Sun Valley]].}} The family took trips each summer back to Oregon with the daughters' godmother, who owned a farm in [[Salem, Oregon|Salem]].<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://www.oregonhomemagazine.com/home-style/1058-mariel-hemingway-in-portland| journal=Oregon Home Magazine| title=Mariel Hemingway in Portland| date=September 10, 2012| access-date=2016-04-02| last=McInerny| first=Vivian| archive-date=August 5, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805112700/http://www.oregonhomemagazine.com/home-style/1058-mariel-hemingway-in-portland| url-status=dead}}</ref> She attended the [[Catlin Gabel School]] in Portland for her junior year.<ref>{{cite journal| journal=[[People (magazine)|People]]| title=Papa Hemingway's Granddaughter, Margaux, Is Fashion's Golden Girl| last=Wohlfert| first=Lee| date=December 23, 1974| access-date=2018-04-04| volume=2| issue=26| url=http://people.com/archive/papa-hemingways-granddaughter-margaux-is-fashions-golden-girl-vol-2-no-26}}</ref> Margaux struggled with several disorders beginning in her teenage years, including alcoholism, depression, [[bulimia]], and [[epilepsy]]. With her permission, a video recording was made of her therapy session related to her bulimia, and it was broadcast on television. She also had [[dyslexia]]. In the 1990s, Margaux reported that she had been sexually abused by her father as a child.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oAhC4mVpw6MC&pg=PA95| title=Reading by the Colors| last=Irlen| first=Helen| year=1991| access-date=2021-02-03| page=95| publisher=Penguin| isbn=978-0-3995-3156-9}}</ref><ref name=Eclipsed>{{cite web| url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-a-life-eclipsed-vol-46-no-3/| title=A Life Eclipsed| first=Karen S.| last=Schneider| work=People| date=July 15, 1996| volume=46| issue=3| access-date=2014-10-25}}</ref> In 2013, her younger sister Mariel said in the documentary ''[[Running from Crazy]]'' that both Margaux and their older sister Muffet had been sexually abused by their father.<ref>{{cite journal| last1=Tapley| first1=Kristophe| title=Mariel Hemingway opens up about suicide, molestation and her family's curse in 'Running from Crazy'| journal=[[HitFix]]| url=http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/mariel-hemingway-opens-up-about-suicide-molestation-and-her-familys-curse-in-runnning-from-crazy| access-date=2015-02-16| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216053235/http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/mariel-hemingway-opens-up-about-suicide-molestation-and-her-familys-curse-in-runnning-from-crazy| archive-date=2015-02-16}}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Margaux Hemingway
(section)
Add topic