Ernest Hemingway
Biography
Childhood
- He was born in Oak Park, Illonios in 1899.
- He had a father named Clarence, a doctor, and a mother named Grace Hall and she was a music teacher.
- Ernest was their second son out of six children.
- (Quirk) His mother liked to dress him up as a girl from infancy until he was around 6.
Ernest Hemingway
He's a little baby.
Girly Ernest
Poor Ernest...
6 Years Old Ernest
He finally got out of his 'girly' phase.
Young Life
- Ernest joined the U.S. army in 1918 to work in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps to assist in World War I.
- He was put into the 12 Regiment Infantry and met J.D. Salinger.
- He received a silver medal of Military Valor for bringing an injured Italian to safety while he, himself, was injured.
- He also received a bronze medal for under-fire bravery as a war correspondent.
- Ernest was injured by a trench mortar as he was sending supplies and was sent to a Milan hospital.
- While in the Milan hospital, recuperating, he met his first love Agnes von Kurowsky.
Ernest's Interests
- Ernest had a passion for bull-fighting, he was a football player, he wrote articles for his school newspaper, loved to sail, loved to fish, and was an extraordinary hunter.
- Ernest has the legacy of being a author and journalist and received a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
- Ernest eventually married four different women.
- Ernest did not like his mother as he grew older.
Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1954 by brainpicker
Ernest Writing
"Woah, a type-writer." he says.
Ernest on his Sailboat
Look at that moustache
Ernest and Some Big Fish
woah...
Ernest and a Lion
He killed Mufasa...
Ernest as a Soldier
He's a private.
Ernest and One of his Wives
...and a lion head?
Older Age
- Ernest Hemingway wrote A Moveable Feast before retiring in his vocation.
- Ernest eventually became an alcoholic and depressed with his lack of physical strength and soon lost his mental strength.
- Ernest Hemingway was diagnosed with hemochromatosis.
- Ernest Hemingway died July 2, 1961.
- He ended his life by suicide, using his 'favorite shotgun'.
- Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife Mary are buried in Ketchum’s town cemetery in Idaho.
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Final Pictures of Ernest Before His Death
Mini BIO - Ernest Hemingway