Ernest Heminway
20 Interesting Facts and More
Early Years
2. Ernest Hemingway started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen.
3. Ernest Hemingway after World War One, joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army, where after serving at the front, was wounded and spent a considerable amount of time in hospitals.
4. After he came back to America, he became a American and Canadian Newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover important events.
His Writing Career
6. Equally successful to The Sun Also Rises (1926), was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's dillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter.
7. 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 (1940).
8. Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.
9. Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith.
His Writing Career Cont.
Personal Life
11. On a 1954 trip to Uganda, he and his fourth wife survived two seperate plane crashes.
12. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but still recovering from injuries from a plane crash, he was unable to attend the ceremony.
13. Hemingway lived in Toronto, Chicago, Paris, and Key West, before spending almost 20 years at a villa in Cuba.
14. During World War II he was said to have rigged his fishing boat with military-style guns and patrolled the Cuban Coast looking for German submarines. He fled in 1959 after Fidel Castro took power, and his former home outside Havana has been converted into a museum.
15. He spent his last few years in Ketchum, Idaho.
16. He had 4 wives before his death 1961.
Some of Ernest Hemingway's Novels
The Old Man and The Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San FermÃn in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant ("Tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The title is taken from a poem by 16th-century English dramatist George Peele.
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His Death
18. At first it was said to be a gun cleaning accident, his 4th wife agreed.
19. His 4th wife came out years later and said it was suicide.
20. Suicide is not uncommon in their family; his father, his brother, at least one sister, his grand daughter, and him all comitted suicide.