Ernest+Hemingway

= **Biography** =

**Childhood:** Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in the morning on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. The address was 439 Oak Park Avenue, but has been changed and is now 339 N. Oak Park Avenue. The house is a family house that was built by his grandfather, Ernest Hall. His father was Dr. Clarence and his mother was Grace Hall Hemingway. He was one of six children. There was four girls and two boys. He got his name from his grandfather, Ernest Hall, and his great uncle, Miller Hall. **Education:** Ernest Hemingway went to school at Oak Park Public School. He was involved in many activities at school. He enjoyed all kinds of sports. He played football, water basketball, swimming, and was the manager on the track team. Hemingway wrote his first article in his school newspaper which was called //Trapeze.// Most of the time he wrote funny articles, and Ring Lardner was his influence to do so. Lardner was a satirist in Hemingway's time. He graduated in 1917, and did not continue his education by going to college. He went to work instead. He took a cub reporter job in Kansas City, and wrote in the Kansas City //Star.// His uncle Tyler helped him get the job.

**World War I:** World War I really began to get bad in Europe when Ernest Hemingway graduated high school. When America joined the allies in April 1917 Hemingway tried to join the army, but his eye sight was so bad that he could not get accepted. Then the Red Cross needed some volunteers to help drive an ambulance so he signed up to help. He got the job in December of 1917, and quit his job as a reporter April of 1918. The Kansas City //Star// that he worked for a little bit would help influence him with his fiction writing. After being sent to Schio with the ambulance on July 8, 1918 he got hurt really bad. Hemingway's leg was shot at and hit many times, he did not give up on helping the injuried soldiers. Italian Silver Medal for Valor was awarded to him for his bravery Hemingway came home from the war in January of 1919. He got about 1,000 dollars from his injuried leg, so he decided not to work for about year after he received the money.



**Marriages:** He first wife was Hadley Richardson, and they were married in 1921. After they got married they moved to Paris. In the year 1923 John, his first son, was born in Toronto. He cheated on his first wife with Pauline Pfeiffer, and married her in May of 1927. Hemingway and Pfeiffer had two sons together. Patrick, their first son, was born in 1928. Gregory was born in 1931. In 1920 they divorced and Hemingway married Martha Gellhorn. She was a famous journalist. They did not have any children together, and Gellhorn ended the marriage in 1945. His last wife was Mary Welsh, and they were married in 1946. They also did not have any children together. They lived in Key West Florida. This was his longest marriage, and they were married for 15 years. He died in 1961, and his wife lived 25 years after he died. **Interests:** Hemingway was in Pamplona, Spain when he saw his first bullfighting. Bullfighting had affected his writing. It became a passion for him. He never attended the run with the bulls in Spain, but he did compete in the amateur bullfighting. When he returned in 1937 he wrote about the Spanish Civil War, and wrote about it in the newspaper articles. He was one of the producers in the film "Spanish Earth." Another interests of Hemingway was fishing. He loved to fish. The year 1928 to 1940 he lived in Key West, and it was considered some of his important years of writing. He wrote a lot about sportfishing. He met a guy named Charles Thompson who also loved to fish. They soon became close and fished almost everyday. His writings were mostly based on things that really happen in his life, and all of his interests. He was one of the most important author in the 20th century. His novels and short-stories became famous.

**Death:** Ernest Hemingway died on July 2, 1961. He had committed suicide three weeks after he turned 62. He killed himself by a shot gun to his head right above his eye. He became very depressed because he had a hereditary diabetic problem that caused complications.He was buried in a Roman Catholic service. = Works and Quotations =

**Major Works:** Some novels are:
 * The Torrents of Spring, wrote in 1925
 * The Sun Also Rises, wrote in 1926
 * A Farewell to Arms, wrote in 1929
 * To Have and Have Not, wrote in 1937

Some nonfiction are:
 * Death in the Afternoon, wrote in 1932
 * Green Hills of Africa, wrote in 1935
 * The Dangerous Summer, wrote in 1960
 * A Moveable Feast, wrote in 1964

Some short story collections are:
 * Three Stories and Ten Poems, wrote in 1923
 * In Our Time, wrote in 1925
 * Men Without Women, wrote in 1927
 * The Snows of Kilimanjaro, wrote in 1932

**Quotations:**
 * "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
 * "A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."
 * "Courage is grace under pressure."
 * "All things truly wicked start from innocence."

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