Biography
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899. He first worked as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City while in his late teens. Earnest joined the Red Cross in May of 1918 and sustained the first of many injuries to come during his lifetime. On September 3, 1921 Hemingway married Hadley Richardson. In 1922 he met many famous writers and influential people including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and James Joyce. In 1925 ‘In Our Time’ a collection of short Hemingway stories is first published. A year later, ‘The Torrents of Spring’ and ‘The Sun Also Rises’ are published. In 1927 Hadley Richardson and Hemingway are divorced and he takes on a new wife Pauline Pfeiffer. That same year he publishes ‘Men Without Women’. In 1928 he moves to Key West and his father commits suicide. In 1929 he published ‘A Farewell To Arms’ and in 1932 ‘Death in the Afternoon’. ‘A Farewell to Arms’ becomes a movie the same year it is published. In 1933 he publishes ‘Winner Take Nothing’ and in 1935 ‘Green Hills of Africa’. Later in 1937 he publishes ‘To Have and Have Not’ followed by the ‘The First Column and the First 49 Stories’ in 1938. In 1940 he publishes ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ based on his experiences reporting on the Spanish Civil War. That same year he divorced Pauline Pfeiffer and married Martha Gellhorn. Later in 1943 ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ became a movie. Two years later he and Martha divorced and he marries Mary Welsh one year later in 1946. In 1950 ‘Across the River and Into the Trees’ is published followed by the ‘Old Man and the Sea’ in 1952. In 1953 he won a Pulitzer Prize for Literature. In 1954 he was involved in two different plane crashes; had injuries from those accidents, and wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1960 Life Magazine published ‘The Dangerous Summer’ and Hemingway is admitted to the Mayo Clinic suffering from depression, paranoia and high blood pressure. Unable to cope with both his mental state and illness, Earnest Hemingway ended his life just like his father did in July of 1961 with a shot to the head. He was just shy of his sixty-second birthday. After Hemingway’s death ‘A Moveable Feast was published in 1964 and ‘Islands in the Stream’ was published in 1970.