<P> "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). </P> <P> Francis Macomber and his wife Margaret (usually referred to as "Margot"), are on a big - game safari in Africa, guided by professional hunter Robert Wilson . Earlier, Francis had panicked when a wounded lion charged him . Margot mocks Macomber for this act of cowardice, and it is implied that she sleeps with Wilson . </P>

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