Tortured soul: The Nobel Prize winner's life was dogged by depression self-doubt, emotional and creative instability and misery. File Photo
In late January 1954, a rumour gained currency around the world: Ernest Miller Hemingway, recognised as one of the world’s top writers, was missing and presumed dead.
Obituaries that later proved premature were already being written. Just the preceding year, Hemingway had won the Pulitzer Prize with his celebrated novella, The Old Man and the Sea.
