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Born in Oak Land, IL
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Ernest Hemingway
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Emingway was a Would War 1 Ambulance driver
He leaves the newspaper and attempts to join the U.S. Army so that he can fight in World War I. The Army rejects him because of poor eyesight, so he volunteers as a driver with the Red Cross Ambulance Corps. -
Served in World War 1
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Hemingway gets wounded in battle
Hemingway is seriously injured by a trench mortar and machine gun. The blast leaves shell fragments in his legs. The Italian government awards him a Silver Medal of Military Valor for dragging a wounded Italian soldier to safety after the attack, but his career as an ambulance driver is over. While recuperating in a Milan hospital, Hemingway falls in love with an American nurse six years his senior named Agnes von Kurowsky. They make plans for her to join him in the United States. -
End of the affair with Agnes von Kurowsky
Hemingway returns to the United States. Agnes soon writes to him to tell him that she has fallen in love with an Italian officer. Hemingway is heartbroken. -
Hemingway married his first wife Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
3 September 1921 - 10 March 1927 (divorced) 1 child -
Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer were married
10 May 1927 - 4 November 1940 (divorced) 2 children -
Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn get married
5 November 1940 - 21 December 1945 (divorced) -
Hemingway and Mary Welsh get married
14 March 1946 - 2 July 1961 (his death) -
The Old Man and the Sea is puoblished in Life magazine
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Nobel Prize
Hemingway is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the 5th American author to recieve this prize. -
Commited suicide in Ketchum, Idaho
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Hemingways books were published
3 of the most famous novels by Hemingway were published after his death, and one was unfinished.
