Ernest Miller Hemingway lived from July 21 1899 to July 2 1961. He was an author and journalist known for many of his great works written between the 1920's and 1950's. Some of is most famous books are:
- The Old Man and the Sea
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- The Sun Also Rises
- A Farewell to Arms
In 1953 Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and in 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois where he went to elementary and high school. Hemingway took part in many sports and played in the school band. At a young age Hemingway got good grades in English, and knew he wanted to be a writer, so took charge of writing and editing for his school's newspaper. After high school, and at the age of seventeen Hemingway went to work for "The Kansas City Star". However, he only stayed for half a year.
During the First World War Hemingway joined a volunteer Ambulance unit at the age of 18. He was injured and taken to a hospital where he met Agnes Von Kurowsky. They planned to marry; however, their relation fell apart near the end of 1991 when she met another man. Hemingway then returned home. Soon after he moved to Toronto to work for the "Toronto Star Weekly". He enjoyed the job, but not the location, so he moved back home, only to leave once again to go to Chicago two months later (still writing for the "Toronto Star Weekly"). In Chicago Hemingway met Elizabeth Hadley, and they promptly moved to Paris together.
In Paris Hemingway and Hadley moved into a small apartment with no running water. In his first few years in France he met some other writers that helped him along his path to writing his best and most famous books. Ernest Hemingway soon began to make a name for himself. The Hemingways felt the need to leave Paris in 1923 when they learnt that they were expecting their first child, and wanted it born in North America. The Hemingways moved to Toronto where Ernest got to continue his writing for the newspaper that was located there and on October 10th 1923 John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway was born. By January of 1924 the Hemingsway were on a ship back to Paris.
Between 1925 and 1929 Ernest Hemingway became truly famous. He wrote his first true novel The Sun Also Rises and according to critics was said to be the best author of his generation. During this period Hadley and Hemingway grew apart and got a divorce. Soon after Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. Pauline became pregnant and the coupe moved back to America, this time to Key West (Florida), where Hemingway said he would never go back to living in a big city. On June 28th 1928 Patrick Hemingway was born.
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| Hemingway on his Boat |
Over the next few year Hemingway moved all over the Americas and Europe; however, he always said his home was in Key West. On November 12th 1931 Hemingway's third son Gregory was born in Kansas city. In 1934 Hemingway bought a boat and sailed through and around the Caribbean and arrived in Bimini where he spent a lot of time.
In 1937 Hemingway moved to Spain to report on the civil war. For two years he went back and forth between Key West and Spain. Then in 1939 he took his ship to Cuba and split with Pauline. Soon after he married Martha Gellhorn (whom he had me in Spain). He changed his 'home' once again, now that he was with a new wife. Martha and Ernest moved to Ketchum, Idaho.
Hemingway's marriage with Martha only lasted for five years, when he fell in love with and married Mary who he lived with until he died. For the next two decades Hemingway continued to travel all over the world and wrote many more books. In those decades he also won many prizes for his writing.
Sadly, Hemingway's life ended in 1961 when he commited suicide; however, it was not until five years after his death that Hemingway's wife admitted that he had committed suicide. Until that time it was assumed he had died of natural causes.
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Thank you for this very extensive biography on Ernest Hemingway. What an interesting life. Did you find any information on his writing style or why he is so famous? I would be interested to know more about that.
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