Ernest Hemingway

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

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.

• 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

• Note: Works by this author published after 1923 are copywritten until 2031

• The Burgomeister's Books: A Farewell to Arms Online Book

• Wikisource: Ernest Hemingway Online Texts

• University of Toronto Libraries RPO: Selected Poetry of Ernest Miller Hemingway

• KansasCity.com: Ernest Hemingway's Kansas City Star stories

• SimonSays.com: Ernest Hemingway eBooks

• Mobipocket: Ernest Hemingway eBooks

• Shmoop: Ernest Hemingway Biography

• July 21, 1899: Born

• 1913: Ernest Hemingway enters Oak Park and River Forest High School.

• 1917-1918: Worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star

• 1918: Member of the Red Cross Ambulance Corps until wounded in World War I; awarded Silver Medal of Military Valor

• 1920: Works as a correspondent for the Toronto Star after return from the war

• 1921: Marries Hadley Richardson and settles in Paris as a correspondent for the Star

• 1922: Joins a circle of literary expatriate Americans, including Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound

• 1923: Ernest Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems, is published. First son, Jack, is born

• 1925: Meets F. Scott Fitzgerald 2 weeks after publication of The Great Gatsby

• 1926: Divorces Richardson and marries Pauline Pfeiffer

• 1928: Moves to Key West, Florida; his father, Clarence, commits suicide; son Patrick is born

• 1931: Establishes a home in Key West; son Gregory is born

• 1933: African safari

• 1937: Spanish Civil War correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance

• 1940: Divorces Pfeiffer and marries Martha Gellhorn

• 1941: After submarine-hunting off the coasts of Cuba and the United States, covers World War II for Collier's Weekly

• 1946: Marries Mary Welsh

• 1953: Pulitzer Prize for Old Man and the Sea

• 1954: Nobel Prize in Literature for Old Man and the Sea1961: Commits suicide on July 2