Mary Hemingway was born on April 5, 1908 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Old Man and the Sea (1958) and The Dick Cavett Show (1968). She died on November 26, 1986 in New York City, New York, USA.
When she died in 1986, she left an estate valued at $3 million. She left a large share to Meharry Medical School in Nashville, The United Negro College Fund, and the American Museum of Natural History. She also left $200,000 to the Ernest Hemingway Foundation to finance a yearly prize to a previously unpublished fiction writer.