Ernest Miller Hemingway
By: Annie Barham
20 Interesting Facts About Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway committed suicide when he was 61
- He had 4 wives
- Married his last and final wife in 1946
- Was involved in World War l and World War ll
- Had both his legs amputated
- His house is now a museum
- Hemingway has won a Nobel Prize
- Survived 2 plane crashes
- Hemingway's brother, sister and father all committed suicide
- His mother wanted a boy and dressed Hemingway as a girl
- The Hemingway family supposedly has a "suicidal curse"
- Ernest suffered from depression
- Francis Fitzgerald became Hemingway's friend which helped him with his writing career
- His first book ever published was Three Stories and 10 poems
- In 1926 Hemingway's first novel The Sun Also Rises was published
- Hemingway loved poly dactyl's which are cats with 6 toes
- He loved hunting and fishing
- Ernest hunted sharks, loins, elephants & many more
- He used a machine gun to kill the sharks and many fish he caught
- First person to ever boat a giant tuna in an undamaged state
Ernest Hemingway Biography