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Ernest Hemingway Short Biography:

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21st, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago. Hemingway was the first son, and second child, born to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway-a country doctor, and Grace Hall Hemingway.

Hemingway's mother had wanted twins, and when this didn't happen, she often dressed young Ernest and his sister Marcelline (a full 18 months older) in similar clothes and with similar hairstyles, maintaining the pretense of the two children being "twins." This has led to some people wondering about Ernest Hemingway and his twin, but in reality he has no twin, but an older sister.

Many academic critics wonder if this had some influence on the recurring themes in Hemingway's works that point to destructive interactions between males and females in general.

After high school, Hemingway did not want to go to college and so at age 18 he bean his writing career as a journalist. Ernest Hemingway - journalist, started as a reporter for The Kansas City Star. Although he worked at this newspaper for only six months, this style of writing would influence all of his fiction writing with short, crisp, clear senetences.

In honor of the centennial year of Hemingway's birth (1899), in 1999 The Star named Hemingway its top reporter of the last hundred years.

Hemingway would serve in World War I. He failed getting into the army because of poor eyes, so Ernest Heminway worked for the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. Hemingway's first story: "A Natural History of the Dead" was based on his first experience with death, picking up corpses of women from a destroyed arms factory.

In a quick flurry of moves after the war Ernest Hemingway would move to Toronto, Chicago, and after marrying his wife, they would move to Paris. Here Ernest Hemingway would learn from Gertrude Stein, and eventually get into an incredibly famous fued.

Hemingway helped make famous the term "The Lost Generation," and as a novelist and short story writer he would become face.

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was one of the earliest authors to win both the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (for The Old Man and the Sea) and the Nobel Prize for literature, placing him with the likes of John Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis, and William Faulkner.

Ernest Hemingway is still often lifted up as an example to graduate students of how to be a successful writer.
Although he was an accomplished man, there was a darkness and depression that ended with Ernest Hemingway committing suicide July 2, 1961.

Ernest Hemingway is one of the all time greats of American literature, whose style was a stark contrast (if not complete polar opposite) of his literary rival, William Faulkner.

If you're an amateur book collector looking for the very first Ernest Hemingway novel, you're going to have a hard time finding it. Hemingway had to pay his dues like most famous writers, and when someone refers to "Hemingway's first novel" they might be referring to one of three works:

Three Stories and Ten Poems
In Our Time
Torrents of Spring

These are the earliest works of Hemingway. "Three Stories and Ten Poems" is the rarest, and was actually self-published. Only 300 copies were printed in 1923, a perfect copy of the first edition of 3 stories and 10 poems would now sell for $65,000. Even a copy in beat up rough shape is worth $3,500 minimum.

Ironically, "In Our Time" was supposed to be Hemingway's first novel, but publishing was delayed, so this wasn't printed until 1924. There were only 170 copies made o the first version, released by William Bird Press of Paris. A perfect first edition of "In Our Time" is worth $50,000, while a 1925 New York printing is woth about the same, but only with a dust jacket.

The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway was printed in 1926, and was the work that really gained national and international attention for the young author. A "Torrents of Spring" first draft with dust jacket is worth around $20,000 in excelent condition, and 15% in worn, but good, condition.

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most famous books, and was written while Ernest Hemingway was in Cuba. In real life Hemingway loved fishing and outdoors activities, and he was often in Cuba, to the point where "Hemingway's Cuba" has actually become slang referring to the works that came from that time, influenced by Cuban surroundings.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is a prime example of Man against Nature, and also an incredible metaphor for Man against Himself. The fisherman is brought by this amazing fish to the edge of oblivion, to the point where he states to the fish that he no longer even cares who kills who, and at that revelation the fisherman triumphs, even when others on the island can not see it.

This was a brilliant novel, and Hemingway was quoted as saying he revised "Old Man" over 200 time before he was finally satisfied with the final story.

Hemingway was no stranger to major sports fishing, and this first hand experience with fishing and the Cuban culture comes through vividly in this masterpiece.

It's no secret that Ernest Hemingway was a huge fan of Cuba. Hemingway often times vacationed for long periods of time in Cuba, especially around Havana. He wrote many of his classic works in Cuba, including The Old Man and the Sea.

Hemingway was as loved by many Cubans as he loved the nation. They know where Hemingway would drink, stay, and write. Those places are still well known among locals in Havana even today.

Cuba held a special place in Ernest Hemingway's heart, and it can be strange in today's world to see him shaking hands with Fidel Castro, but this reminds you of a more peaceful time, and shows that great literature can transcend politics, language, and nations alike - which in a way might just be Ernest Hemingway's greatest accomplishment.

This complete list of all books by Ernest Hemingway includes books that were published after Hemingway's death?

Selected works:
Three Stories And Three Poems (1923)
In Our Time (1924)
The Torrents of Spring (1926)
Today is Friday (1926)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Men Without Women (1927)
A Farewell To Arms (1929)
Death In The Afternoon (1932)
Winner Take Nothing (1933)
The Green Hills Of Africa (1935)
To Have And Have Not (1937)
The Spanish War (1938)
The Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway (1938)
The Fifth Column aka the Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories (1938)
The Spanish Earth (1938)
For Whom The Bell Tolls (1940)
The Portable Hemingway (1942)
Men at War (1942)
Voyage to Victory (1944)
The Essential Hemingway (1947)
Across The River And Into The Trees (1950)
The Old Man And The Sea (1952, Pulizer Prize in 1953)
The Hemingway Reader (1953)
Complete Stories (1954)
Two Christmas Tales (1959)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (1961)
All following works printed after Hemingway's Death
The Wild Years (1962)
Three Novels (1962)
The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber (1963)
A Moveable Feast (1964)
By-Line (1967)
The Fifth Column And Four Stories Of The Spanish Civil War (1969)
Hemingway's African Stories (1969)
Ernest Hemingway Cuba Reporter: Kansas City Star Stories (1970)
Islands In The Stream (1970)
The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
The Enduring Hemingway (1974)
88 Poems (1979)
Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981)
The Dangerous Summer (1983)
Ernest Hemingway On Writing (1984)
Dateline: Toronto (1985)
The Garden Of Eden (1986)
The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence (1996, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli)
True At First Light (1999)

This section will answer some of the most common questions asked about Ernest Hemingway, one of the finest authors of the 20th century.

Ernest Hemingway Facts:

Q: Did Ernest Hemingway have a twin?
A: No. His mother wanted twins, and so often dressed Ernest and his older sister alike, but they were not twins.

Q: What awards were won by Ernest Hemingway?
A: Ernest Hemingway won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, as well as the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Q: How did Ernest Hemingway die?
A: Hemingway committed suicide with a shotgun in 1961. As an interesting note, depression may have run in the family since his father had also committed suicide with a pistol in 1928.

Q: What are the most famous Ernest Hemingway stories?
A: Depends on what form. For fiction, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, and For Whom the Bell Tolls are some of the main novel length works, while a huge number of short stories are famous. Some include The Killers, Hills Like White Elephants, and Cat in the Rain. Hemingway even wrote famous non-fiction works like Green Hills of Africa and Death in the Afternoon.

Q: Why was Ernest Hemingway important to literature?
A: Many writers of the time were writing more and more complexly, making stories convuluted and gutted with details and literary tricks. Hemingway not only wrote some of the best works ever, but wrote in a clear crisp language that didn't take away from the power and impact.

Q: I've never read any Hemingway, what should I start with?
A: Start with the short stories. "The Killers" is absolutely amazing, and any of the short stories listed earlier will do. "The Old Man and the Sea" is a shorter novel, and some of Hemingway's non-ficton is some of his best work.