-
Bith of Ernest Hemingway
He was born in Oak Park, Illinois -
High School Graduation
He Graduates high school and joins the 7th missouri infantry -
On his way to the Army
Leaves for Italy and World War 1 -
Toronto Star
Becomes a reporter for the Toronto Star -
Marriage of hadley Richardson
Marries Hadley Richardson and they move to Paris -
Hemingway's First Publication
Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems, is published. In the same year, Hemingway brings his pregnant wife to watch a bullfight in Pamplona, Spain, hoping it will toughen up their unborn son. Hemingway's first child, John "Jack" Hemingway, is born on 10 October… but it's unclear what influence the bulls had on him.] Quote: All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. -
Hemingway and Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at the Dingo Bar in Paris, just two weeks after the publication of The Great Gatsby. Their friendship will later fall apart in spectacular fashion, thanks to a toxic combination of professional rivalry and a feud between Hemingway and Fitzgerald's wife Zelda. -
Divorces Hadley Richardson
Divorces Hadley Richardson and marries Pauline Pfeiffer. Quote: A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. -
Death in the Afternoon
Hemingway goes to Spain to research bullfighting for Teath in the Afternoon. -
African Safari
Pauline and Ernest travel to Kenya for a ten-week safari. Quote: A man can be destroyed but not defeated. -
Nobel Prize
Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the fifth American author to receive the award. Hemingway is still recovering from serious injuries sustained in two separate plane crashes and a bushfire accident earlier in the year and is unable to travel to Stockholm to receive the award. The American ambassador John C. Cabot accepts the prize on his behalf and reads his speech aloud. -
He leaves Cuba forever
[Hemingway leaves Cuba forever following the 1959 revolution in which his acquaintance Fidel Castro leads communist revolutionaries to power. The Cuban government takes possession of his home, Finca Vigia, and will later turn it into a Hemingway museum](Hemingway leaves Cuba forever following the 1959 revolution in which his acquaintance Fidel Castro leads communist revolutionaries to power. The Cuban government takes possession of his home, Finca Vigia, and will later turn it into a Hemingway museum) -
Ernest tragic death
He suffered from severe depression and alcoholism. He commits suicide with a shotgun in his home Quote: All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
