Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American author who was raised in Oak Park, Illinois and worked as a newspaper reporter after high school. He volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War I and was seriously wounded in Italy. After recovering, he began writing and moved to Paris in 1921, where he was introduced to other famous authors like Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hemingway is known for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, which drew from his experiences in World War I, Africa, and the Spanish Civil War. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 and lived in places
2. ? 2nd
of 6 children
? Parents: father – doctor
mother – opera singer
and music teacher
? Raised in Oak Park, a suburb of
Chicago
3. In high school, Hemingway wrote for
the school newspaper and edited
the school literary journal.
After graduation, he worked for 6
months as a newspaper reporter
for the Kansas City Star.
4. In June 1918, Hemingway
volunteered to be an ambulance
driver for the Red Cross and was
assigned to Italy, where he was
seriously wounded.
6. Everything he wrote was rejected
by publishers.
After getting married in 1921, he
and his wife sailed to Paris; a
friend had given him letters of
introduction to:
17. An African safari, with his second
wife, Pauline, led to the writing of
Green Hills of Africa and “The
Snows of Kilimanjaro”
18. Hemingway reported on the
Spanish Civil War (1936-1938),
together with his third wife, Martha
Gellhorn.
19. Hemingway’s advice to young writers
was, “Always write what you know.”
In 1939, what many consider his
greatest novel was published: For
Whom the Bell Tolls, about the
Spanish Civil War.
24. Hemingway’s writing has been
admired around the world and his
works have been translated into
many languages.
Two weeks before his 61st
birthday,
Hemingway committed suicide.