Ernest Hemingway
A Biography
20 FACTS ABOUT ERNEST HEMINGWAY
- He was born on the 21st of July in 1899.
- He got his education at Oak Park and River Forest High School.
- He died on the 2nd of July, in 1961, 19 days before his 62nd birthday in Ketchum, Idaho.
- He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954
- He was born in Oak Park Illinois.
- His father, his brother and sister, his brother-in-law, and himself all committed suicide.
- He had four wives (not simultaneously).
- He first married Hadley Richardson in 1921 (divorced in 1927).
His second wife was Pauline Pfeiffer
02-02 Ernest Hemingway - Interview.avi
- Martha Gellhorn was Hemingway's 3rd wife in 1940.
- After Gellhorn, he married Mary Welsh, his fourth and final wife.
- He almost died in 2 plane crashes in Africa.
- He published 6 short story collections.
He published 2 non-fiction books.
Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1954 by brainpicker
- He published 7 novels.
- Ernest Hemington and Mary Hemington are both buried in Ketchum's cemetery in Idaho.
- He wrote a play called the Fifth Column.
- 3 of his novels, 3 non-fiction books, and 4 collections of short stories were published after his death.
He had three children: Jack (with Hadley) , Patrick ( with Pauline) , and Gregory (With Pauline)
Ernest Hemingway's Passport Photo
from 1923
Hemingway with his first wife (Hadley) and Jack
Jack was his firstborn son, nicknamed 'Bumby'
Hemingway and his last wife, Mary
They're on a safari in Africa before his near death plane crashes