Messy love life

Married as many times as he was, he apparently would have left still more marriages - perhaps only to marry again - if the objects of his lust/affection had been receptive to his advances. Despite his fame, rugged good looks and larger-than-life character, I’m surprised Hemingway persuaded so many attractive and intelligent women to marry him given his baggage — beginning with the circumstances of his earlier failed marriages and excessive drinking.