Her Famous Family
Margaux Hemingway was born to Jack Hemingway and Byra “Puck” (née Whittlesey) on February 16th, 1954, in Portland, Oregon. Her father, Jack, was the oldest son of the legendary American novelist Ernest Hemingway, and his godparents were Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
After spending her first few years in Oregon, Margaux’s family moved to Cuba, where her grandfather had resided. After Cuba, they moved to San Francisco, California, and then to the Hemingway farm in Ketchum, Idaho. They would spend the summers on her mother’s family’s farm in Salem, Oregon.