According to a February 22, 1964 New York Times article titled, Hemingway Estate $1.4 Million; Widow is His Lone Beneficiary Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway left a gross estate of $1,410,310.
The author's assets were divided in the accounting into three categories -- stocks and bonds ($418,933), miscellaneous property ($801,766) and mortgages, notes and cash ($189,611).
After deductions of $62,545 for funeral and administrative expenses and $58,529 for debts, adjusted gross estate was listed as $1,289,336.
Mariel Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter, revisits her childhood home where her grandfather committed suicide. See the video at The Huffington Post.
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