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Birth
Ernest Hemingway Biography Hemingway is born in Oak Park, Illinois to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a doctor, and Grace Hall Hemingway, an ex opera singer who was then a music teacher. -
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Enters WWI
Ernest Hemingway Biography Hemingway was rejected by the military due to bad eyes. He entered WWI as an ambulance driver for the Red-Cross. -
Injured
Ernest Hemingway Biography Hemingway is injured in Italy while doing Red-Cross work. -
Discharged
Ernest Hemingway BiographyHemiingway is discharger from a hospital in Milanon New Years Eve. While hospitalized, he fell in love with the Red Cross nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky, who declined to marry him. -
Married
Brief Life of Ernest Hemingway Hemingway met, and after 9 months of dating married Hadley Richardson. -
Paris
Brief Life of Ernest Hemingway Hemingway and Hadley moved to Paris upon the advice of Sherwood Anderson. In Paris he fell under the influence of the "Lost Generation" of modernist writing. -
Son Born
Brief Life of Ernest Hemingway Hemingway and Hadley have their first son. They name him John but his nickname is Bumby. -
First Novel Published
Brief Life of Ernest Hemingway Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises is published. His travels to Spain and the Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona provided the material for his first novel. -
Divorced
Brief Life of Ernest Hemingway Hemingway divorced Hadley. He had fallen in love with her good friend, Pauline Pfieffer. They married later that year. -
Second Son Born
Brief Life of Ernest Hemingway Hemingway and his current wife Pauline have Hemingway's second son, Pauline's first. His name is Patrick Hemingway. -
Father Died
Hemingway's father commits suicide Hemingway/'s father, Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, commted suicide using an old Civil War pistol. This greatly hurt Hemingway and is perhaps played out in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. -
Third Son Born
Brief Life of Ernest Hemingway Hemingway and Pauline had their second son, Hemingway's third son. His name is Gregory. -
D-Day
World War II History Hemingway flew with U.S. troops to D-Day as a journalist. -
Pulitzer Prize
Won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and drama Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his famous novel The Old Man and The Sea. -
Noble Prize
Ernest Hemingway Hemingway won the Noble Prize for Literature for The Old Man and The Sea. He unable to travel to Sweden to receive the prize, so the American ambassador accepted it for him and read his speech aloud -
Died
Ernest Hemingway Hemingway suffered depression and ended his life with a shotgun. He was 61 and passed a few weeks before his 62nd birthday.
