Ernest Hamingway

  • Birthdate

    Birthdate
    Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois
  • Quote

    "Never confuse movement with action"
  • WW1

    WW1
    At the end of 17, he enters WW1. Then later joined volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army
  • New Job, New Wife

    Becomes a reporter in Toronto. A year later he marries his first wife Hadley Richardson, and move to Paris.
  • Leaves Paris

    Leaves Paris
    moves to Key West, Florida with new wife Pauline. There they have a new child.
  • Quote

    All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
  • Quote

    “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
  • Quote

    Quote
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
  • Old Man And The Sea

    Old Man And The Sea
    This year he published his most successful book, which won him a Nobel prise.
  • Death In The Afternoon

    Death In The Afternoon
    published
  • Nobel Prise

    Hemingway witns the nobel prise for Literature. "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". around this time, he survived two plane crashes in Africa.
  • death

    Hemingway commits suicide