Described by The New York Times as the most outstanding living writer since the death of Shakespeare (at the time), Ernest Hemingway is among English literature’s most lauded authors. The Nobel Prize-winning author is celebrated for novels such as “A Farewell to Arms,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” and “The Old Man and the Sea.”

However, despite renown and riches, Hemingway was a fatally troubled man, and his suicide in the summer of 1961 was neither the first nor the last tragedy for the Hemingway family, which has been described as “cursed” (via Distractify). The first suicide came in 1928, when Ernest’s father Clarence shot himself dead. And after Ernest’s death, two of his siblings died at their own hands in 1966 and 1982. This genetic disposition also reached granddaughter Margaux, who ended her life in 1996.

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