How accident prone was Hemingway?
Hemingway suffered through an enormous amount of accidents and ailments in his lifetime. In his book, Hemingway, Kenneth Lynn gives an inventory list of health problems that consumed Hemingway in his later years. These included: concussion of the brain, ruptured liver, crushed vertebra, temporary hearing and vision loss, and first-degree burns from two planes crashes in 1954. The entire list of health problems can be found on 529 of Lynn’s book.
