Ernest Hemingway
Biography
20 Facts
Fact #1
Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois
Fact #2
He started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen.
Fact #3
Hemingway was involved in football and boxing in High School. He had to stop boxing from previous matches causing permant eye damage.
Fact #4
Hemingway owned multi-toed cats and they had so much offspring that now multi-toed cats are called Hemingway Cats!!
Fact #5
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Fact #6
This busy man had 3 children and their names were Jack, Gloria, and Patrick Hemingway
Fact #7
In 1951, He wrote "The Old Man and the Sea", which would become his most famous book, finally winning him the Pulitzer Prize he had long been denied. ( talk about desperate )
Fact #8
Hemingway had several mental disorders such as bipolar and depression.
Fact #9
Ernest Hemingway made most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s.
The Things That He Loved 1930s
- He enjoyed hunting
- He loved deep fishing in Flordia
- Bullfighting in Espana ( esta loco )
Get Your Life Together
he has a muesum
Fact #15
For his service, he was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery.
Fact #16
Hemingway had high blood pressure and Liver disease.
Fact #17
He wrote A Moveable Feast, a memoir of his years in Paris, and retired permanently to Idaho. There he continued to battle with deteriorating mental and physical health.
Fact #18
Fact #19
He Died *tear* *tear*
With his most beloved gun