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Ernest Born
Hemmingway was born as a son to a physician with a musically inclined mother -
High School Graduation
Ernest gradutated with great academic marks and was the editor of the school paper and every body expected him to go onto college with an english major. But instead he went on to become a journalist in kansas -
WWI
Ernest wanted to help out in the war but with an eye condition he could not enlist so instead he drove an ambulance until in July he was injured by shrapnel. -
First Love
While Hemingway was in the Hospital he met Agnes von Kurowsky but she never was really interested in him and broke off the relationship when ernest returned home -
Married to Hadley
Hemmingway met Hadley and married her. She was a big supporter of his writing career and so the couple moved to paris. -
Met Pauline
Hemingway met Pauline but was much more taken with her sister. But his wife and Pauline were friends and that pushed the two of them together in the end. By 1926 Hemingway was already planning a divorce with hadley and planning to marry Pauline. -
Published "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell To Arms."
While in Paris Hemingway Publishes 2 books which were very succesful. -
Martha Gellhorn
Hemingway met writer Martha Gellhorn. Hemingway was immensely attracted to her. By the next year, she had joined him in Spain, and the relationship blossomed into a full-blown affair. In late 1940, soon after his divorce from Pauline, he married Gellhorn. -
Mary Welsh
Hemingway's marriage to Martha Gellhorn struggled from its start in 1940, and its end was in sight when he met Mary Welsh shortly after he arrived in England to begin covering World War II. Among Welsh's better qualities was a willingness to flatter and cater to him. The couple's relationship almost ended in Paris when they had a fight over Welsh's husband. When Hemingway left Europe early in 1945, however, he and Welsh were planning to be married. -
Quote
"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of neccesary" -
Quote
"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor." -
The Old Man and The Sea
Hemingway's confidence in his own work was sometimes misguided, but not with The Old Man and the Sea. Within forty-eight hours, all 5.3 million copies were bought. Perhaps most noteworthy, however, was The Old Man and the Sea's rapid acceptance into schools and became an instant classic. -
Pulitzer Prize
In May 1953, The Old Man and the Sea earned him the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. -
Nobel Prize
Hemingway was in Cube wehn word came to him that he had won the Nobel Prize in literature. Hemingway had often had disliked the Nobel Prize but when he recieved it, there was no doubt that he was pleased. Claiming he was sick, he said he could not go to Sweden to accept the award. Instead, the ambassador from Sweden came to his home outside of Havana to present him with the Nobel prize -
Quote
"The shortest answer is doing the thing." -
Quote
"The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it." -
His death
Hemingway's depression did not improve over time, and on July 2, 1961, following several rounds of electroshock therapy, he killed himself at his home in Idaho.
