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Illustration by Dean Cornwell in September 1936's Cosmopolitan accompanied by the first publication of the story

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Set in Africa, it was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine concurrently with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". The story was eventually adapted to the screen as the Zoltan Korda film The Macomber Affair (1947).

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and writer who was the third and youngest child of author Ernest Hemingway. Although she was born a male and lived most of her life publicly as a man,...

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