Ernest Hemingway
By: Sarah Schulze
*~*~Fact one~*~*
He joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army.
*~*~Fact two~*~*
He was treated with electroshock therapy as many as 15 times at the recommendation of his physician in 1960.
*~*~Fact Three~*~*
Ernest once took a urinal home from his favorite bar.
*~*~Fact Four~*~*
Ernest survived through two plane crashes.
*~*~Fact Five~*~*
He Committed suicide in July 2, 1961
*~*~Fact Six~*~*
He ended up having more than one wife.
*~*~Fact Seven~*~*
His mother dressed him up as a girl when he was little
*~*~Fact Eight~*~*
Hemingway is also known for his heroic, adventurous and often stereotypically “manly” public persona
*~*~Fact Nine~*~*
He was suspected as a spy by the U.S Government.
*~*~Fact Ten~*~*
Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls
*~*~Fact Eleven~*~*
He moved to cuba to get away from the government. He assumed they were watching him. (Which they were)
*~*~Fact Twelve~*~*
He met a nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky, who accepted his proposal of marriage, but ended up leaving him for another man.
*~*~Fact Thirteen~*~*
He suffered from depression and was treated for high blood pressure, and liver disease.
*~*~Fact Fourteen~*~*
In 1923 Hemingway had a son with his first Fiance named Hadley, And he had his second and third son in with his first wife Pauline.
*~*~Fact Fifteen~*~*
Ernest Hemingway and Hadley divorced since Ernest had an affair with a woman named Pauline Pfeiffe, who soon became his second wife once the divorce form was final.
*~*~Fact Sixteen~*~*
When he wasn't writing he spent the most of 1930's chasing adventure.
*~*~Fact Seventeen~*~*
He loved fishing, and sometimes went deep sea fishing.
*~*~Fact Eighteen~*~*
One of his most famous books The Old Man and The Sea Won him the Pulitzer prize which he was denied to earn for a long time.
*~*~Fact Nineteen~*~*
In 1954 He won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
*~*~Fact Twenty~*~*
He Believed that If someone struggled through life, or had a horrible experience, then that made them stronger.
Mini BIO - Ernest Hemingway