Ernest Hemingway
Biography
General Facts
- Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899.
- Hemingway started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen.
- One of the most famous American writers of the 20th century.
- Hemingway died of a shotgun wound from himself.
- He died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961 at the age of 61.
Ernest Hemingway remembered
Nobel Prize
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Novels
- Hemingway's first novel, was published in 1926.
- Many of his novels are classic works of American Literature.
- His writing style became an inspiration for many crime and pulp fiction novels.
- His first books include ‘Three stories and Ten Poems’.
- Writing short stories, Hemingway knew how to get the most from the least.
War
- When Hemingway turned eighteen he tried to be in the army, but was rejected because of poor vision.
- Hemingway worked his way from a reporter, then a volunteer for an ambulance unit in World War-I.
- Early in 1918 Hemingway responded to a Red Cross recruitment effort in Kansas City and then became an ambulance driver in Italy.
- For his service in the Italian War, he was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery.
Relationships
- In 1921 he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives.
- Ernest and Pauline divorced in 1940 (his second wife).
- While in Spain Martha Gellhorn met Ernest Hemingway, becoming his third wife in 1940.
- Mary Welsh married Ernest Hemingway, the ceremony taking place in Cuba.
- Mary Welsh Hemingway was the fourth and final wife.
Ernest and Hadley
This was his 1st wife.
Ernest and Pauline
This was his second wife.
Ernest and Martha
This was his third wife.