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Birth of Hemingway
Born in Oak Park, Illinois -
Highschool
Hemingway is a student athlete who writes and plays football and boxing. -
World War I
Hemingway begins World War I as a Red Cross ambulance driver "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime" -
End Of Duty
Hemingway suffers injury from Mortar Shells and is hospitalized, where he meets Agnes Von Kurowsky. "All things truly wicked start from innocence." -
End of Love Life
Agnes Von Kurowsky leaves Hemingway by letter. -
Marriage
Hemingway marries his first of four wives, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson -
The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway publishes his first novel, "The Sun Also Rises". -
Divorce
Hemingway divorces Elizabeth Hadley and remarries soon afterward. "a man can be destroyed but not defeated." -
Suicide In The Family
Hemingway's father commits suicide "Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another." -
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.
Hemingway publishes his first full length play and first 49 short stories of his career. "I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me." -
Last Marriage
Hemingway marries his fourth and final wife, Mary Welsh. -
Death of Mother
Hemingway's mother, Grace, dies of natural causes. "
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive." -
The Old Man And The Sea
Hemingway publishes the old man and the sea which brings him a pulitzer Prize. "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." -
Suicide
Suffering from alcholism and depression Hemingway commits suicide with a shotgun in his home in Ketchum, Idaho. He recieves a Catholic Burial by the church.
