Ernest Hemingway Biography

Ernest Hemingway, Writer. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954.

    * Born: 21 July 1899
    * Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois
    * Died: 2 July 1961 (suicide)
    * Best Known As: Famously manly author of For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hemingway was the second of Dr. Clarence and Grace Hall Hemingway's six children. He had four sisters and one brother. He was named after his maternal grandfather Ernest Hall and his great uncle Miller Hall.

He worked hard at being a composite of all the manly attributes he gave to his fictional heroes : a hard drinker, big-game hunter, fearless soldier, amateur boxer, and bullfight aficionado.

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Ernest Hemingway Biography

Oak Park was a mainly Protestant, upper middle-class suburb of Chicago

Hemingway attended the public schools in Oak Park

Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemingway: His father taught him to love out-door life

Published his earliest stories and poems in his high school newspaper

1917 : After his graduation, he worked six months as a reporter for The Kansas City Star

Joined a volunteer ambulance unit in Italy during World War I

1918: Suffered a severe leg wound. For his service, Hemingway was twice decorated by the Italian

1921 : Moved to Paris. Wrote article for the Toronto Star

When not writing for the newspaper of for himself, he toured France, Switzerland and Italy with his wife Elisabeth Hadley Richardson

1922 : Toured in Greece and Turkey. Reported on the war between the two countries

1923 : Made 2 trips to Spain. The second to see bullfights at Pamplona's annual festival

1928: His father committed suicide (Lost his health to diabetes and his money in the Florida real-estate bubble)

1929 :His affair with Agnes von Kurowsky(an american nurse during his hospital stay) was the basis for the novel A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Filmed in 1932

After the war he worked very shortly as a journalist in Chicago

1954 : Received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Was unable to attend the award ceremony in Stockholm. Was recuperating from injuries sustained in an airplane crash while hunting in Uganda

1961: He killed himself with a shotgun

1964 : Portrayed Fitzgerald in a Moveable Feast (published posthumously)

He is one of the most famous American writers of the 20th century.

Wrote novels, shorts stories (Outdoorsmen, expatriates, soldiers, men of action, etc)

His machismo was as famous as his writing

He lived in Paris, Cuba and Key West, loved bullfighting, hunting and drinking

He was War correspondent in World War II and the Spanish Civil war

His familiar nickname was "Papa".