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Ernest Hemingway

American author and journalist (1899-1961) · United States · Writers · Died at 61

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The prose stripped to bone, the life lived at full tilt - Hemingway made both a style and a performance, and American writing bent toward his example. Novels that became syllabus fixtures, a Nobel, a public persona built on bullfights and wars and hard drinking, then the shotgun in Idaho.

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A life in dates

2013A Day's WaitBook published after his death, short story by Ernest Hemingway2012Hemingway & GellhornBiopic about his life21 December 2012, 2012 television film directed by Philip KaufmanIMDb1999True at First LightBook published after his death, 1999 memoir by Ernest Hemingway1997In Love and WarBiopic about his life14 August 1997, 1996 film by Richard AttenboroughIMDb1987Florida Artists Hall of FameAward1986The Garden of EdenBook published after his death, novel by Ernest Hemingway1985The Dangerous SummerBook published after his deathJune 1985, non-fiction work by Ernest Hemingway1970Islands in the StreamBook published after his death, 1970 novel by Ernest Hemingway1964A Moveable FeastBook published after his deathDecember 1964, memoir by Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling young expatriate journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s while he was married to his first wife, Hadley Richardson; first published in 19641961Died2 July 19611954National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de CéspedesAwardNobel Prize in LiteratureAward1953Bancarella Literary PrizeAwardPulitzer Prize for FictionAward1947Bronze Star MedalAward1927“In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.”In their words"In Another Country" in Men Without Women (1927).

1925“I wonder what your idea of heaven would be - A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.”In their words1 July 1925Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1 July 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

“Write me at the Hotel Quintana, Pamplona, Spain. Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something”In their words1 July 1925Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1 July 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

“My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible.”In their words15 May 1925Letter (15 May 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

1923“Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.”In their words17 November 1923"Trout Fishing in Europe", in The Toronto Star Weekly (17 November 1923)

1918“And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.”In their words18 October 1918Letter to his family (18 October 1918); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker. It was

1917Medal of Military ValourAward1899Born21 July 1899

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Ernest Hemingway Boyhood Home, Oak Park, IllinoisErnest Hemingway Boyhood Home, Oak Park, IllinoisHemingway was the second child and first son born to Clarence and Grace.Hemingway was the second child and first son born to Clarence and Grace.Hemingway as 1st Lt. (A.R.C.), in late 1918 (note the medal ribbons on his chest and the two rank stripes above the cuffs)[12]Hemingway as 1st Lt. (A.R.C.), in late 1918 (note the medal ribbons on his chest and the two rank stripes above the cuffs)[12]In Milan in 1918In Milan in 1918Hemingway's 1923 passport photo; at this time, he lived in Paris with his wife Hadley and worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star Weekly.Hemingway's 1923 passport photo; at this time, he lived in Paris with his wife Hadley and worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star Weekly.Ernest, Hadley, and Bumby Hemingway in Schruns, Austria, in 1926, months before they separatedErnest, Hadley, and Bumby Hemingway in Schruns, Austria, in 1926, months before they separatedFrom left to right: Ernest Hemingway, Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, Donald Ogden Stewart, and Patrick Stirling Guthrie, at a café in Pamplona, Spain, July 1925.From left to right: Ernest Hemingway, Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, Donald Ogden Stewart, and Patrick Stirling Guthrie, at a café in Pamplona, Spain, July 1925.

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  1. In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

    1927, "In Another Country" in Men Without Women (1927)., Own words

  2. I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out.

    Aug 21, 1926, About his book, The Sun Also Rises in a letter (21 August 1926); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981) edited by, Own words

  3. I wonder what your idea of heaven would be - A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

    Jul 1, 1925, Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1 July 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker, Own words

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Awards

Florida Artists Hall of Fame1987
Nobel Prize in Literature1954
National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Céspedes1954
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1953
Bancarella Literary Prize1953
Bronze Star Medal1947
Medal of Military Valour1917
Commemorative Medal for the Italo-Austrian War 1915-1918

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Raised in suburban Oak Park, Illinois, he broke for The Kansas City Star after high school, then drove ambulances on the Italian Front in World War I until shrapnel tore through him in 1918. By 1921 he'd landed in Paris as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, falling in with the Lost Generation expatriates who pushed him toward the lean modernist line that became his signature. The Sun Also Rises arrived in 1926, followed by A Farewell to Arms in 1929, both mined from the war years. He spent the 1930s in Key West, then Havana, covering the Spanish Civil War in 1937 - which fed For Whom the Bell Tolls in 1940 - and riding with Allied troops as a journalist through Normandy and the liberation of Paris in World War II. The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer in 1952; the Nobel came in 1954, the same year two plane crashes in Africa left him broken and in chronic pain. He died by his own hand in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961.

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United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1899 to 1961 · aged 61

In common with Ernest

William FaulknerAlso in To Have and Have Not (1945)Juliette GrécoAlso in The Sun Also Rises (1957)Ingrid BergmanAlso in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)Spencer TracyAlso in The Old Man and the Sea (1958)Gary CooperAlso in A Farewell to Arms (1932)Andrei TarkovskyAlso in The Killers (1956)

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