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Birth of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway, he son of Dr. Clarence E. and Grace Hall Hemingway, was born on July 21st of 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois (Rovit "Chronology"). As stated by Earl Rovit in his Ernest Hemingway biography, " The new country that Hemingway was born into was global and was riven by wars, civic and domestic violence, aand mercurial changes in loyalties and in definitions of right conduct" ( Rovit 1). Throught Hemingway's life, his stories reflected these new social norms, making him one of the best -
Birth of Ernest Hemingway
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Agnes Von Kurowsky and WWI
During WWI, Hemingway was an ambulance driver in Italy. After an explosion injured him he was sent to the Milan Hospital where, the girl he believed to be the love of his life, Agnes von Kurowsky, was his nurse. After he was released from the hospital, they would constantly write. In one of her first letters to him she wrote, " Well, if I write anymore I'll be in water marks as the paper not in the signal pattern is too lonely & lugubrious for words. The weather shore am helpin out the feeling-" -
Agnes von Kurowsky and WWI
"-Don't forget to come back to me, Boy O.M. [of mine]- cause I miss you most awfully" (Villard/Nagel 92). The two continued to writer letters back and worth for years, but Agnes (who was 26 and Ernest was 18), felt more as a mother-figure and ended their flirtation in her last letter. -
African Safaris
The picture included is of Ernest Hemingway outside cleaning his Mannlicher rifle, the gun which he used for hunting during his African safaris ("Ernest Hemingway, 1939"). In 1934, while in Kenya, hunting, he wrote his friend Arnold saying, "Killed my 2 buffalo with the 30-06 Springfield, also all lions. Got some beauties and some wonderful heads. Do you want anything from here" (Baker 403). In 1935, he wrote the book "Green Hills of Africa" which was inspired by his safari. -
Ernest Marries Mary Welsh
According to the Washington Post in 1946, "Havana, March 14, -Ernest Hemingway, writer and war correspondent, and Miss Mary Welsh of Chicago, former newspaper and magazine writer, were married here this afternoon. It was the fourth marriage for Hemingway, who is 47. He and his third wife, Martha Gellhorn, were divorced in Havana last Decmeber" (The Washington Post). -
Pulitzer Price for "The Old Man and the Sea"
On May 6th of 1953, Ernest wrote a his close friend, Wallace Meyer, saying, "We heard on the radio May 4 that The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize/ Hope this is some good to Scribner [his publisher} and to the book. Never having had one of these I don't know what difference it makes to a book. Can't hurt it I guess" (Baker 821). His book, The Old Man and the Sea, was one of the main contributors to Ernest's mass popularity in the 1930's a time of economic depression (Brenner 8). -
Nobel Prize
In October of 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel prize for the influence that he had applied on contemporary style ("The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954"). In his acceptance speech he says, "For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with good luck, he will succeed" ("Hemingway Nobel"). -
Ernest Commits Suicide
On July 2nd of 1961, just as his father did, Ernest Hemingway committed suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho (Rovit "Chronology"). His books "A Moveable Feast", "Islands in the Stream", "The Nick Adams Stories", and "The Dangerous Summer", were publsihed after his death.
