Ernest Hemingway
Biography
20 Facts about Ernest Hemingway
- Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois.
- His first job, at the age of 17, was writing for a newspaper
- During WWI, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit and was wounded
- After WWI, he became a reporter for American and Canadian newspapers
- His first important work was called The Sun Also Rises
- He wrote Farewell to Arms based on his experiences in WWI
- Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter to write For Whom the Bell Tolls
- One of his best known works is The Old Man and the Sea
- He was a sportsman
- He was known for his short and to-the-point writing style
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- When he was young, his mother dressed him in girl's clothing, cut his hair in a feminine style, and called Ernestine
- Hemingway’s memoir A Movable Feast, about his life in Paris in the 1920's, was not published until 1964
- His son, Patrick, worked as a big-game hunter and ran a safari business in Tanzania
- He was a big-game hunter and a skilled deep sea fisherman
- Hemingway was awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery under-fire in World War II when he was a war correspondent
- The FBI had an open file on Hemingway
- He committed suicide in 1961
- His brother, sister, and father also committed suicide
- Hemingway was married four times
- He wrote one play called The Fifth Column
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