All About Ernest Hemingway
Biography
FACTS ABOUT ERNEST HEMINGWAY!
- Born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois
- Began career as a writer at age 17 at the newspaper Kansas City Star
- Was a volunteer ambulance medic for the Italian army during WWI
- Injured during the war and received the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery
- Wrote "A Very Short Story" and Farewell to Arms
- Returned to the United States at the age of 20
- Started working for the Toronto Star
- Met and married Hadley Richardson
- Moved to Paris
- Had a son, John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway
- Began attending the famous Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain
- Wrote his first novel, The Sun Also Rises
- The Sun Also Rises is considered his best work, it examines postwar disillusionment of his generation
- Divorced Hadley and married Pauline Pfeiffer
- Moved back to America with Pauline
- His second son, Patrick Hemingway was born
- Spent time big-game hunting in Africa, bullfighting in Spain, deep-sea fishing in Florida
- Survived multiple plane crashes
- Reporter on the Spanish Civil War in 1937
- Wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls (eventually nominated for a Pulitzer Prize)
- Divorced his second wife and married Martha Gellhorn
- Moved to Havana, Cuba
- Served as a WWII correspondent and was present at several of the war's key moments
- Divorced his third wife and married Mary Welsh
- Wrote The Old Man and the Sea in 1951, won the Pulitzer Prize (1953) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1954)
- Retired in Idaho
- Suffered depression throughout his life
- Committed suicide on July 2, 1961
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