• Ernest Hemingway was a controversial American journalist, poet, short story writer, and novelist.

• Fast Facts

  1. Full name: Ernest Miller Hemingway
  2. Nickname: "Papa"
  3. Born: July 21, 1899
  4. Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois
  5. Death: July 2, 1961 (suicide)
  6. Location: Ketchum, Idaho
  7. Literary genre: War, Romance
  8. Literary movement: The Lost Generation
  9. Amateur boxer as a young man
  10. Married four times
  11. Influences: Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, and Anton Chekhov
  12. Awards: 1953 Pulitzer Prize and 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature for The Old Man and the Sea. An Oscar for the film adaptation starring Spencer Tracy.
  13. Health problems: Diagnosed with bipolar disorder and insomnia in later years, aggravated by chronic alcoholism, diabetes and liver failure.
  14. Suffered severe amnesia after unsuccessful electro-convulsive therapy treatments

• Career

  After growing up in Oak Park, Illinois, the product of a middle aged upbringing, Hemingway got his start as a reporter for the Kansas City Star at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the World War I, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army but was wounded. After his return to the United States Hemingway became a reporter for several newspapers. Many of Hemingway's novels and stories derive in some part from his own experiences. During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in living in Paris and used this experience as inspiration for his first notable work, The Sun Also Rises. Later, Hemingway worked as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, which inspired his most ambitious novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway published his award winning short novel, The Old Man and the Sea later in his life but suffered a series of injuries which spiraled him into depression, alcoholism, and a series of other health problems. Hemingway took his life in 1961.

• Notable Works

  • 1926: The Sun Also Rises
  • 1929: A Farewell to Arms
  • 1940: For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • 1952: The Old Man and the Sea
  • 1964: A Moveable Feast

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