2. Born on July 21, 1899, in the village of Oak Park, IL (west of Chicago). Both here and in Michigan, he would explore, camp, fish and hunt.

3. Practiced Victorian beliefs and priorities of the time… religion family work discipline

4. Oak Park and River Forest High School Wrote for school’s publications poems stories Based on his own experiences

6. 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..

7. 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.

8. These dramatic personal events against the backdrop of a brutal became the basis of Hemingway’s first widely successful novel published in the following decade.

9. In Europe in the 1920's, Ernest learned from avant-garde writers like Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound their literary sparseness and compression. Short and sweet

10. Hemingway used these methods in short stories and novels that captured the attention of both critics and the public.

11. "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..."

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

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

14. "...a stunning blond journalist from Minnesota..."

15. Hemingway’s Publications

17. Prize for Fiction The Old Man and the Sea

18. “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”

19. 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.