Facts, photo's, and video's about the history, writings, and life of Ernest Hemingway the icon of American Literature Plus Best Buys on Ernest Hemingway books and biographies. Ernest Hemingway an American novelist, short story writer and journalist was a major influence on 20th century fiction. His writings are considered as classic American literature by many. His sense of adventure and public image was renowned the world over influenced future generations.
Ernest Hemingway Writing His Book "For Whom The Bell Tolls"
Ernest Hemingway BAsic Facts
NAME
Ernest Hemingway aliases:
Ernest M. Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
FULL NAME
Ernest Miller Hemingway
OCCUPATION
Author
BIRTH DATE
July 21, 1899
DEATH DATE
July 2, 1961
EDUCATION
Oak Park and River Forest High School
PLACE OF BIRTH
Cicero (now in Oak Park), Illinois
PLACE OF DEATH
Ketchum, Idaho (Biography.com, 1)
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)
Spouses
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
(married. 1921; divorced. 1927)
Pauline Pfeiffer
(married. 1927; divorced. 1940)
Martha Gellhorn
(m. 1940; div. 1945)
Mary Welsh
(married. 1946; his death 1961)
Children
Jack, Patrick, Gregory (Wikipedia, 2017, 2)
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Ernest Hemingway aliases:
Ernest M. Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
FULL NAME
Ernest Miller Hemingway
OCCUPATION
Author
BIRTH DATE
July 21, 1899
DEATH DATE
July 2, 1961
EDUCATION
Oak Park and River Forest High School
PLACE OF BIRTH
Cicero (now in Oak Park), Illinois
PLACE OF DEATH
Ketchum, Idaho (Biography.com, 1)
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)
Spouses
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
(married. 1921; divorced. 1927)
Pauline Pfeiffer
(married. 1927; divorced. 1940)
Martha Gellhorn
(m. 1940; div. 1945)
Mary Welsh
(married. 1946; his death 1961)
Children
Jack, Patrick, Gregory (Wikipedia, 2017, 2)
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Famous Authors Ernest Hemingway 1889-1961
Most of Hemingway's work was produced during the mid 1920's to the mid 1950's. During his writing career he published seven novels, six short story collections,two non-fiction works, other writings he published posthumously were three novels, four short story collections and three non fiction works. He won a Pulitzer prize for his writings in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
He was raised in Oak Park Illinois and his first writing job was as a reporter for The Kansas City Star. Soon after he enlisted as a World War I Ambulance driver on the Italian Front. In 1918 he sustained a serious injury and returned home. His experiences during this period led to his novel, A Farewell to Arms published in 1929.
"In 1921, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community. He published his debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, in 1926. After his 1927 divorce from Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer; they divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had been a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940; they separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II. He was present at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris.
Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea (1952), Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of his remaining life. Hemingway maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, (1930s) and Cuba (1940s and 1950s), and in 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where he killed himself in mid-1961" ( Wikipedia, 2).
He was raised in Oak Park Illinois and his first writing job was as a reporter for The Kansas City Star. Soon after he enlisted as a World War I Ambulance driver on the Italian Front. In 1918 he sustained a serious injury and returned home. His experiences during this period led to his novel, A Farewell to Arms published in 1929.
"In 1921, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community. He published his debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, in 1926. After his 1927 divorce from Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer; they divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had been a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940; they separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II. He was present at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris.
Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea (1952), Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of his remaining life. Hemingway maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, (1930s) and Cuba (1940s and 1950s), and in 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where he killed himself in mid-1961" ( Wikipedia, 2).
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1. Ernest Hemingway biography.com written by Biography.com Editors. The Biography.com website. https://www.biography.com/people/ernest-hemingway-9334498. Access Date: July 23, 2017. Publisher:A&E Television Networks.Last Updated April 27, 2017
2. Ernest Hemingway. Retrieved July 19, 2017 from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
1. Ernest Hemingway biography.com written by Biography.com Editors. The Biography.com website. https://www.biography.com/people/ernest-hemingway-9334498. Access Date: July 23, 2017. Publisher:A&E Television Networks.Last Updated April 27, 2017
2. Ernest Hemingway. Retrieved July 19, 2017 from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway