Ernest Haminway
By. Alexis haudron
Ernest Hemingway youth/ Early life.
- Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero.
- His parents where Clarence and Grace Hemingway.
- In highschool he wrote the school newspaper
- His family also spent a great deal of time in northern Michigan, where they had a cabin. It was there that the future sportsman learned to hunt, fish and appreciate the outdoors.
- When he graduated from highschool he went to work for the Kanas City Star
Mid age/ Military Experience.
- In 1918, Hemingway went overseas to serve in World War I as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army.
- He volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italin front.
- For his service, he was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery, but soon sustained injuries that landed him in a hospital in Milan.
- There he met a nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky, who soon accepted his proposal of marriage.
- Later on she left him for another man.
personal struggles and sucide
- In 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Hemingway suffered from depression
- He wrote A Moveable Feast, a memoir of his years in Paris
- Early on the morning of July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway committed suicide in his Ketchum home.
- retired permanently to Idaho. There he continued to battle with deteriorating mental and physical health.