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Author was born
Ernnest Hemingay was born on July 21, 1899. -
War time
Ernest was sent overseas to serve in World War 1. -
20 years old
Still nursing his injury and recovering from the brutalities of war at the young age of 20, he returned to the United States and spent time in northern Michigan before taking a job at the Toronto Star. -
first wife
It was in Chicago that Hemingway met Hadley Richardson, the woman who would become his first wife. The couple married and quickly moved to Paris, where Hemingway worked as a foreign correspondent for the Star. -
son
In 1923, Hemingway and Hadley had a son, John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway. By this time the writer had also begun frequenting the famous Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain. -
trip
In 1925, the couple, joining a group of British and American expatriates, took a trip to the festival that would later provided the basis of Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises. -
setting
This tory took place during the spanish civil war -
Published in 1938
The old man at the bridge was published in 1938 -
Girl finds him
The girl finds the old man and tries to help him -
end
The spanish civil war ended. -
left animals
The old man left his animals. -
famous book
In 1951, Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea, which would become perhaps his most famous book, finally winning him the Pulitzer Prize he had long been denied. -
Pulitzer Prize
He won an award -
nobel prize in Lit
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he died
He died July 2, 1961
