Hemingway’s writing haven burns down, claiming a life

The Bahamas hotel renowned to be the one-time writing headquarters of Ernest Hemingway has been destroyed in a fire.

Authorities said 10 staff members and one guest were in the Compleat Angler Hotel on the island of North Bimini.

The hotel's owner Julian Brown, who died in the blaze, helped the guests escape before disappearing into the flames to fight the fire.

The hotel housed a museum dedicated to the novelist - who stayed there in the mid- to late-1930s - and a trove of Hemingway memorabilia.