Ernest Hemingway | Biography

Discover through the 16 most important events of the period in which Ernest Hemingway was growing up, living, and in which he wrote his amazing books.

Early Life & Adolescence

1899 ~ 1913

Family and childhood

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a physician, and Grace Hall Hemingway, a musician.

1913 ~ 1917

High school, sport and first work as a journalist

He was a good athlete, involved with a number of sports—boxing, track and field, water polo, and football; performed in the school orchestra for two years with his sister Marcelline.

During his last two years at high school, he edited the Trapeze and Tabula (the school's newspaper and yearbook).

1918 ~ 1919

World War I

"When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you ... Then when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you."

18 years old Ernest failed to enlist in the U.S. Army because of poor eyesight and served as an ambulance driver at the Italian Front. He was seriously wounded by mortar fire.

1919 ~ 1920

Rehabilitation and life in Toronto

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1920 ~ 1921

Life in Chicago and first marriage

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1921 ~ 1925

Happy and calm life in Europe

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1926 ~ 1933

Divorce and life with a new family

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1928

Father's suicide

In the winter he received a cable telling him that his father had killed himself. Hemingway was devastated, having earlier written to his father telling him not to worry about financial difficulties; the letter arrived minutes after the suicide.

He commented, "I'll probably go the same way."

1930 ~ 1937

Key West and the Caribbean

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1937 ~ 1941

Spanish Civil War, divorce and new marriage. Cuba

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1941 ~ 1945

Life in Eurpe. World War II.

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1953, 1954

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Nobel Prize in Literature.

In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

1955 ~ 1960

Depression and illnesses.

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1960 ~ July 1961

Shock therapy and suicide.

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1899 ~ 1913

Family and childhood

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a physician, and Grace Hall Hemingway, a musician.

Family and childhood His mother dressed little Ernest as a girl and called him "dolly"

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Family and childhood Hemingway was the second child and first son born to Clarence and Grace

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1913 ~ 1917

High school, sport and first work as a journalist

He was a good athlete, involved with a number of sports—boxing, track and field, water polo, and football; performed in the school orchestra for two years with his sister Marcelline.

During his last two years at high school, he edited the Trapeze and Tabula (the school's newspaper and yearbook).

Hemingway attended Oak Park and River Forest High School from 1913 until 1917. He was a good athlete, involved with a number of sports—boxing, track and field, water polo, and football; performed in the school orchestra for two years with his sister Marcelline; and received good grades in English classes.

Family and childhood He was a good athlete, involved with a number of sports—boxing.

After leaving high school he went to work for The Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. Although he stayed there for only six months, he relied on the Star's style guide as a foundation for his writing: "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative."

Biography

Early Life & Adolescence

Family and childhood

High school, sport and first work as a journalist

World War I

Young Adulthood

Rehabilitation and life in Toronto

Life in Chicago and first marriage

Happy and calm life in Europe

Divorce and life with a new family

Father's suicide

Key West and the Caribbean

Spanish Civil War, divorce and new marriage. Cuba

Middle Adulthood

Life in Eurpe. World War II.

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Nobel Prize in Literature.

Depression and illnesses.

Shock therapy and suicide.

Family and childhood

High school, sport and first work as a journalist

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