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Birth date
The Hemingway Resource CenterErnest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois at eight o'clock in the morning, to the parents of Dr. Clarence and Grace Hall Hemingway -
War Veteran
Red Cross World War I18-year-old Hemingway stepped off a train and assumed the duties of a Red Cross ambulance driver. One night an Austrian mortar shell shattered his knee. Hemingway was then hit by machine gun fire, sustaining 227 separate wounds to his legs. -
Love Affair
Ernest HemingwayErnest (age 19) fell madly in love with the Agnes (age 27) the nurse that healed him after his war acident, but their love was -
1st Marriage
Hemingway's First Wife ElizebethErnest Hemingway marries Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. She is only wife number 1 out of his 4 marriages and is 8 years older then him -
Birth of 1st Child
The Son Also FallsHemingway brings his pregnant wife to Pamplona, Spain, and his first child, John "Jack" Hemingway, was born... -
Hemingway's 1st Novel
The Sun Always RisesHemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, is published. The novel is critically acclaimed and commercially successful. -
Hemingway's First divorce and Remarriage
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway divorces Elizabeth Hadley, and one month later he married Pauline Pfeiffer. -
Hemingway's Second Son was Born and Clarence Died
<a href='http://www.lostgeneration.com/keywest.htm' >Ernest Hemingway's Biography<Kay West</a>Hemingway and Pauline leave Paris and moved to a house in Key West, Florida. The couple's son Patrick was born on 28 June. Also i this same year, Hemingway's father Clarence commited suicide on 6 December. -
Famous Quote
Ernest Hemingway Quotes"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book." -
Birth of Hemingway's Last Son
The Strange Saga on Gregory HemingwayErnest Hemingway's third and last child, Gregory Hemingway, was born. Hemingway called his son "Gig", but in adulthood, he became a cross-dresser which led Gregory to call himself Gloria. -
Famous Quote
Ernest Hemingway Quote"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened." -
Hemingway Divorces Again
Ernest HemingwayHemingway divorces Pauline, less than three weeks later, he married the journalist Martha Gellhorn. The couple settles in Finca Vigia, the place where Hemingway lived, off and on, for twenty years. -
Ernest Divorces and Married his 4th Wife
Los Angeles TimesErnest divorces, and marries Mary Welsh, his fourth and final wife, on 14 March. On 19 August, she miscarries due to an ectopic pregnancy. The couple will produce no children together. -
Hemingway Recieves a Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize.orgErnest Hemingway is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the fifth American author to receive the award. The American ambassador John C. Cabot accepts the prize on his behalf and reads his speech aloud. -
Death
Ernest Hemingway biographyHemingay took his life at age 61 in Ketchum, Idaho, due to a deep depression and alcoholism
