Introduction to Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's birth and school life Hemingway’s young life His wives His writings Awards he had received Great words said by him

Author Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, close to the prairies and woods west of Chicago. Both here and in Michigan, he would explore, camp, fish and hunt with his physician father, Dr. Clarence "Ed" Hemingway..

Both parents and their nearby families fostered the Victorian priorities of the time: religion, family, work and discipline. They followed the Victorians' elaborate sentimental style in living and writing. At Oak Park and River Forest High School, Ernest reported and wrote articles, poems and stories for the school's publications largely based on his direct experiences.

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The year Ernest graduated he began reporting for the Kansas City Star The year Ernest graduated he began reporting for the Kansas City Star. Here he learned to get to the heart of a story with direct, simple sentences. After entering World War I the following year, he was wounded near the Italian/Austrian front. Hospitalized, he fell in love with his nurse, who later called off their relationship. These dramatic personal events against the backdrop of a brutal war became the basis of Hemingway's first widely successful novel, A Farewell to Arms, published in the following decade.

In Europe in the 1920's , Ernest learned from avant-garde writers like Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound their literary spareness and compression. Hemingway used these methods in short stories and novels that captured the attention of both critics and the public. back

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson "Through his literary friends, he met and fell in love with another tall, lovely young woman, Hadley Richardson. She was eight years older than Hemingway..."

Pauline Marie Pfeiffer "Pauline was a well-educated, devout Catholic with a great job, a huge trust fund, and countless, more suitable, admirers."

Martha Ellis Gellhorn "Gellhorn's marriage to hemingway lasted five years, ending when Gellhorn left Hemingway, the only of his wives to do so."

Mary Welsh "...a stunning blond journalist from Minnesota..." back

1923  Three Stories & Ten Poems (published in Paris) 1924  In our time [sic] (published in Paris) 1925 In Our Time 1926 Torrents of Spring 1926 The Sun Also Rises 1927 Men Without Women 1929 A Farewell to Arms 1932  Death in the Afternoon 1933 Winner Take Nothing 1935  Green Hills of Africa

back 1937 To Have and Have Not 1938  The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories 1940  For Whom the Bell Tolls 1942  Men at War: The best War Stories of All Time (edited and with introduction by Hemingway) 1950  Across the River and Into the Trees 1952 The Old Man and the Sea back

Pulitzer Prize (1953) Prize for Fiction The Old Man and the Sea

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style" back

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.