Ernest Hemingway
Biography
Interesting Facts
He only wrote one play called "The Fifth Column", and it is set during the Spanish Civil War.
Like Ernest Hemingway, his father, brother, and sister also committed suicide.
He started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen.
He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously.
Him and his wife, Mary Welsh, survived 2 plane crashes. The first was a plane they were sight seeing in. The other was the rescue plane, rescuing them from the previous crash.
His mother, always wanting a girl, dressed him in girl clothes and called him Ernestine.
He was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois.
He served in World War 1 as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army.
Agnes Von Kurowsky, a nurse, was he first love. He met her while in the hospital for an injury during WW1, but she later left him for another man
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Enjoyed bullfighting in Spain. He never ran with the bulls in the San Fermín festival, but he competed in amateur bullfighting competitions.
Hemingway spent the years from 1928 to 1940 as a part-time and permanent resident of Key West.They were the years when he wrote hard and played hard and indulged his passion for sportfishing in waters around the Marquesas Keys Atoll, the Gulf Stream, and the Dry Tortugas.
Hemingway continued to drink heavily, though his damaged internal organs could no longer tolerate alcohol due to 2 near fatal plane crashes he experienced.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1954) for his novel "The Old Man and the Sea"
During one instance of fighting in World War 2, he threw three hand grenades into a bunker, killing several SS officers. He was decorated with the Bronze Star for his action.
He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and insomnia in his later years.